An appreciative writeup of the recent Dead Duck Day celebration in Rotterdam, which turned out to be the biggest and most festive of the 31 Dead Duck Day celebrations, appears in the news publication De Stadsruit. Bjorn de Leeuw wrote it. Here is a machine translation from the original Dutch into English: Dead Duck Day […]
Category: Research News
Research — on any and all subjects — that makes people LAUGH, then THINK.
Disposition of a Mixed Meal by the Conscious Dog
Some people have wondered about the disposition of a mixed meal by the conscious dog. One obvious place to begin scratching that intellectual itch is the study: “Disposition of a Mixed Meal by the Conscious Dog,” M.C. Moore, M.J. Pagliassotti, L.L. Swift, J. Asher, J. Murrell, D. Neal, and A.D. Cherrington, American Journal of Physiology-Endocrinology […]
Boomerangs, bananas and tampon manuals
Michelle Spierings wrote about the recent Ig Nobel show in Leiden, The Netherlands. A behavioral biologist at the Institute of Biology Leiden and the University of Vienna, Austria, Spierings had a starring role in the show. Her essay appears in the July 5, 2026 issue of Bionieuws. Here is a machine translation from the original […]
Maybe-Impressive Words, and Words about Coffee-Liking
If you savor jargon-enriched descriptions of iffy much-touted computer-involved approaches to using small amounts of data about things that are difficult to measure and interpret, this study may be of special interest: “AI-driven prediction of consumer liking of coffee from sensory data,” Michael Gunning, Maite Pilar Serantes Laforgue, Jean-Xavier Guinard, and Ilias Tagkopoulos, npc Science […]



