Research — on any and all subjects — that makes people LAUGH, then THINK.
Mice and humans live in close proximity. This leads to conflict: we experience nuisances and actively combat these rodents. But is that always necessary? The Natural History Museum Rotterdam has collected mice that met their ends in the most improbable ways: trapped inside (the handle of) a paint roller, drowned in olive oil, electrocuted in […]
The July 2026 issue of mini-AIR, our teeny tiny free little e-newsletter of overflow detritus that did not fit in the magazine (Annals of Improbable Research), has just gone out. The issue contains (among other stuff) info about research on the carrying capacity of heads. It includes a quick look at the study “Why do […]
“Ig Nobel Laureates Patricia Yang and Park Seung-min Deliver First Joint Public Talk in Korea on Excrement Research” says the headline of a July 23 report by DongA Science. The report goes on to explain: “Dong-A Science marks its 40th anniversary with a July 25 event at Seoul National University featuring Ig Nobel Prize–winning studies […]
Some people worry about pedagogical density. Some of them write about that worry, so that others can read about it. A new addition to all this is the study: “Introducing pedagogical mediation to make theory-dense linguistics research available for classroom intervention,” Eloy Romero Muñoz and Dilin Liu, Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, vol. 5, no. […]