A South Florida man might have avoided arrest had he installed Ig Nobel-winning catproofing software on his computer. According to the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, a man’s cat has been implicated in his arrest for having child pornography on his computer. Martin County Sheriff’s detectives didn’t buy it when a 48-year-old Jensen Beach man claimed that […]
Category: Boys Will Be Boys
Research — that makes people LAUGH, then THINK — by and for teenage boys of all ages and genders.
Vaisman’s flaccid penis patent, and the wheel
An ‘every player wins a prize’ approach to Australian patent law enabled Jack Vaisman to claim official endorsement for his sex therapy. Kelly Burke and Kate McClymont investigate. A month after John Keogh applied in 2001 for an Australian Innovation Patent for his “circular transportation device”, the Australian government granted him a patent for the […]
Boys Will Be Boys: Financial Trading
Manly and womanly behavior diverge when people play the stock market, hints this report: “Boys Will Be Boys: Gender, Overconfidence, and Common Stock Investmen,” Brad Barber and Terrance Odean, Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. 116, no. 1, February 2001, pp. 261-92 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/003355301556400). The authors, at the University of California, Davis, report: Theoretical models predict that […]
Improbable Research Collection #119
Here’s the new episode — #119, “MRI Sex” — of the Improbable Research TV series. Dr. Pek Van Andel, who won an Ig Nobel Prize for making the first MRI images of a couple’s sex organs while those organs were in use, also made a video of the phenomenon. Here, more or less, is the […]