Research — on any and all subjects — that makes people LAUGH, then THINK.
Much confusion arose as to what a thing was. Marc Furió and colleagues did some detective work, then reported what they think they found out: “No place for Pliocene tourists with Ockham’s razor in the pocket: Comment on Crespo et al. [doi.org/10.1016/j.palwor.2023.03.006] (2023),” Marc Furió, Raef Minwer-Barakat, and Antonio García-Alix, Palaeoworld, vol. 33, no. 6, […]
Some humans eat nettles. So do some gorillas. This report looks at twelve gorillas and a small portion of their gastronomic experience with nettles: “An experimental study of nettle feeding in captive gorillas,” Claudio Tennie, Daniela Hedwig, Josep Call, and Michael Tomasello, American Journal of Primatology: Official Journal of the American Society of Primatologists, vol. […]
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, […]