Research — on any and all subjects — that makes people LAUGH, then THINK.
Whether you prefer to be eaten or to eat, you can pretend to indulge your preference by doing what the people in this study did: “Impersonating Predators and Prey to Study Trophic Interactions Through Real-Life Simulations,” David Bolduc, Frédéric Dulude-de Broin, Gabriel Bergeron, Catherine Villeneuve, Matthieu Weiss-Blais, Clément Couloigner, Rachel Dubourg, Maxime Fraser-Franco, Francis Banville, […]
Some people have strange beliefs about the ear and its malformations. If you are one of those people, and you are curious about what some people in other times and places may have believed, listen to the authors of this study: “The Ear and its Malformations: Strange Beliefs and Misconceptions,” Irene E. Gamatsi, Thomas P. […]
Almost anyone who has spent time cutting a pancake with an exotic knife will acknowledge that it can be interesting. This study, also, acknowledges that cutting a pancake with an exotic knife can be interesting: “Cutting a Pancake with an Exotic Knife,” David O.H. Cutler and Neil J. A. Sloane, arXiv:2511.15864, 2025. (Thanks to Mason […]
“A Canadian journal has issued corrections on 138 case reports it published over the last 25 years to add a disclaimer: The cases described are fictional,” says Retraction Watch, which supplies details. The journal is Paediatrics & Child Health. (Thanks to Eugenie Samuel Reich for bringing this to our attention.)