Research — on any and all subjects — that makes people LAUGH, then THINK.
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. […]
The special PEOPLE issue (volume 32, number 4, July/August 2026) of the magazine Annals of Improbable Research has gone go out to subscribers. Even if you are not a subscriber you can read several of its articles online free, for looks at many aspects of digestion and/or indigestion: People Research Review Unattractive and Attractive People […]
Chernoff faces are an unusually human way of representing statistical data. Herman Chernoff, who conceived of them, died on July 6, 2026. Read an appreciation of him from the Stanford University department of statistics (where he was for many years on the faculty). We have many times celebrated the wonder and power of Chernoff faces, […]
An unusual kind of eye candy surprised two doctors, who wrote this medical report about it: “Intravenous Jellybean,” Mark J. Koelemay and Evert J. Kooi, European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, epub 2026. The authors, at Amsterdam UMC, The Netherlands, report: “A 71 year old man presented with a slowly growing asymptomatic tumour on […]