Lavish and copious details about the 30th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony dominate the special Ig Nobel issue (vol. 26, no. 6) of the magazine. (The issue contains other stuff, too!) Here’s the front cover of the magazine issue:
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Get thee down a rabbit hole…
The special Ig Nobel issue (vol. 26, no. 6) of the magazine includes a new kind of guide, in addition to [A] the lavish details about the 30th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, and [B] other stuff. The new guide is called “Ways to Use This Magazine. The ways include: Write a limerick about […]
Research about liars and con men
The special Liars & Con Men issue of the magazine (vol. 26, no. 5) is stuffed with research about liars and con men.
Coffee, Tea, and Mood Experiments
“Coffee, Tea, and Mood Experiments” is a featured article in the special Coffee, and Tea issue (volume 26, number 4) of the Annals of Improbable Research. If you indulge in a cup of coffee or a cup of tea, inform yourself—in a tiny and certainly iffy way—as to what you might be doing to your […]
What does coffee do to your brain: The eternal question
“Coffee and the Brain: Attention, Make, React, Threat” is a featured article in the special Coffee, and Tea issue (volume 26, number 4) of the Annals of Improbable Research. It gurgles into the seemingly eternal quest to understand how coffee affects what the drinker thinks and feels, and does not think or feel. Read the […]
How to Spill a Cup of Coffee
“How to Spill a Cup of Coffee” is a featured article in the special Coffee, and Tea issue (volume 26, number 4) of the Annals of Improbable Research. It looks at two studies—each of which led to an Ig Nobel Prize—about the physics of how and why anyone who walks with a full cup of […]
Ants on stilts, and ants hunkered in a bunker
Ants on stilts, and Wolf on ants on stilts, and ants trapped and hunkered in an old bunker have the spotlight in three ant research studies featured in the “Ants Research” column in the special Small Animals issue (vol. 26, no 3) of the Annals of Improbable Research.
Small Animals special issue of Improbable Research
The special Small Animals issue (volume 26, number 3) of the magazine is chock full of improbable research about small animals.
The special Psychology issue—Improbable Research
The special Psychology issue (vol. 26, no. 1) of the magazine oozes reports about improbable research about people’s thinking and behavior. Perhaps this is the psychologically right moment to subscribe.
Using a photocopy machine to make images of atoms
Xerox Enlargement Microscopy (XEM) is a cheap, simple, if poor, way to make large images of even the tiniest objects. One uses a photocopy machine, repeatedly. The technique was introduced in an article in the March/April 1995 issue of the Annals of Improbable Research.