“Evaluating AI Chatbots in Penis Enhancement Information”

Make what you will of the Readability, Reliability and Quality of this newly published paper: “Evaluating AI Chatbots in Penis Enhancement Information: A Comparative Analysis of Readability, Reliability and Quality,” Mehmet Vehbi Kayra [pictured here], Hakan Anil, Ilturk Ozdogan, Suhail Mohamed Amin Baradia, and Serdar Toksoz, International Journal of Impotence Research, epub 2025. (Thanks to […]

Sad news: Ig Nobel Prize winner Phil Zimbardo has died

Phil Zimbardo died on October 14. His obituary is online. One of his lesser professional accomplishments came in 2003 when that year’s Ig Nobel Prize in psychology was awarded to Gian Vittorio Caprara, Claudio Barbaranelli, and Philip Zimbardo, for their report “Politicians’ Uniquely Simple Personalities.” That study was published in Nature, vol. 385, February 1997, […]

The special MORBID issue of the magazine

The special MORBID (volume 30, number 5, September/October 2024) issue of the magazine Annals of Improbable Research will soon go out to subscribers. Even if you are not a subscriber you can read several of its articles online free, for looks at many kinds of morbid research: dead reckoning, morbid curiosity, Brazilian butt-lift death, curiosity and cats, drinking […]

The special NON-QUANTUM PHYSICS issue

The special NON-QUANTUM PHYSICS (volume 30, number 4, July/August 2024) issue of the magazine Annals of Improbable Research has just gone out to subscribers. Even if you are not a subscriber you can read several of its articles online free, for looks at some physics of Detangling, Whipping, Kicking, Walking, Telescoping and many other familiar things; and at […]

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