Join us for the Improbable Research session at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting, in Austin Texas! When: Saturday night, February 17, 8:00 pm. Where: Hilton Austin Hotel— Salon H, Austin, Texas The event will include will include: Marc Abrahams, founder of the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony Ig Nobel Prize winner Alex Suarez (Zurich, Switzerland)—Using a didgeridoo […]
Category: Improbable Investigators
People who do research that makes people LAUGH, then THINK.
A new life portrait of Troy, the inventive, prize-winning Grizzly Suit-of-Armor inventor
Troy Hurtubise enjoys and does not enjoy a deep biographical look at him that’s headlined “HE WAS A VIRAL SENSATION BEFORE THE INTERNET CHEAPENED THAT STATUS.” Troy was awarded a 1998 Ig Nobel Prize in the field of Safety Engineering, for developing and personally testing a suit of armor that is impervious to grizzly bears. Here’s the documentary […]
Sound Pressures Generated by Exploding Eggs
The claims made in lawsuits – and the need to verify or disprove them – sometimes spark interesting research. The Acoustical Society of America’s Fall 2017 meeting included a report titled, “Sound pressures generated by exploding eggs”. Investigators Anthony Nash and Lauren von Blohn began this research thanks to a lawsuit: A restaurant had hard-boiled […]
Keith Raniere’s inventive patents
Keith Raniere, whose inventive uses of human beings are, some of them, profiled in the New York Times under the headline “Inside a Secretive Group Where Women Are Branded“, has filed unusual patent applications. Here are three of those patent applications that relate to things other than branding women. “Determination of whether a luciferian can be […]