The book A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates is appreciated in the article “A Million Random Digits,” which is one of the articles in the special Numbers issue of the Annals of Improbable Research, which is one of the 142 issues published so far! The original, digit-laden study was published by the Rand Corporation in […]
Category: Improbable TV
Documentaries and other videos that make people LAUGH, then THINK.
Improbable TV: “The Tay Bridge Disaster” group reading at Central Square
Here’s a new episode of the Improbable Research TV series. It’s the 3rd of many episodes featuring the bad poetry of William Topaz McGonagall. Fans of consecutive numbering will undoubtedly remember the previously-posted 4th episode. William Topaz McGonagall, who died in 1902, is widely regarded as the worst poet ever to write in the English […]
Improbable TV: Tay Bridge Disaster recited on a train on the bridge
Here’s a new episode of the Improbable Research TV series. It’s the 4th of many episodes featuring the bad poetry of William Topaz McGonagall. (For no good reason at all, we are releasing this 4th episode before we release the 3rd episode.) William Topaz McGonagall, who died in 1902, is widely regarded as the worst poet […]
Improbable TV: “The Tay Bridge Disaster” in Ukrainian
Here’s a new episode — #McG-002, “”The Tay Bridge Disaster” with Dr. Elena Bodnar — of the Improbable Research TV series. It’s the 2nd of many episodes featuring the bad poetry of William Topaz McGonagall. William Topaz McGonagall, who died in 1902, is widely regarded as the worst poet ever to write in the English language. The […]