Research — on any and all subjects — that makes people LAUGH, then THINK.
The special FORCES issue (volume 32, number 3, May/June 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: StressSlipping and Slapping* If a Falling Bullet* […]
When a person is hungry, what is a too-tempting food? This study, in addition to reporting a medical incident, begins to try to answer that question: “Each Worm to His Taste: Some Prefer to Eat Nettles – A Giant Gastric Phytobezoar,” Mahir Gachabayov, Abakar Abdullaev, Petr Mityushin, and Timur Gilyazov, Clinical Case Reports, vol. 4, […]
Video of two shows on the 2026 Ig Nobel EuroTour: Lund University Lund University, in Lund, Sweden, with Minna Lyons (2014 Ig Nobel Prize winner, for amassing evidence that people who habitually stay up late are, on average, more self-admiring, more manipulative, and more psychopathic than people who habitually arise early in the morning.) Marie […]
The word “really”, expressed forcefully, was the crux of a long-running comedy routine more than a decade ago, on the American TV program Saturday Night Live. A recent study takes a really good look at the equivalent word in the Mandarin Chinese language. The study is: “Stance-taking and (inter)subjective roles of Mandarin zhende (ma/a),” Shuang […]