Midland, Texas, childhood home of U.S. President G. Walker Bush, is also home to Juan David Geraldo, inventor of "a travel toothbrush through which dental cream may be dispensed one-handed," U.S. patent number 6793433, issued September 21, 2004. The inventor’ s personality shines through, despite the technical wording in the patent: I thank God for […]
Category: Improbable Investigators
People who do research that makes people LAUGH, then THINK.
The man who performed 10,000 root canals
The man who performed more than 10,000 root canal procedures — and who once thrilled the audence at an Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony — has died. An obituary appears in the October 7, 2005 issue of the Boston Globe. It reads in part: Dr. Philip Joseph Molloy III was an endodontist with a blue-collar work […]
Devinity on high
Betsy Devine is blogging part of her Frankly multifarious Ig Nobel experience from a mountaintop in Bavaria. Thanks to the web (and providing that the technological fates are willing) she will be able to watch her handiwork via the live webcast. Betsy is one third of the team — Dave Feldman and Keith Clark are […]
Glauber’s sweeping success
Congratulations to Ig Nobel sweeper Roy Glauber [click on the link to see an action photo], who has just won a Nobel Prize in physics! For the past ten years, Roy has been a vital participant in the annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony. By spontaneous tradition, the Ig audience throws paper airplanes at the stage […]