Category: Podcast

Neurological damage from incessant praying, and an auctioneer’s jaw-drop-drop-dropping ailment — these things both turn up in this week’s Improbable Research podcast. SUBSCRIBE on Play.it, iTunes, or Spotify to get a new episode every week, free. This week, Marc Abrahams  —with dramatic readings by Chris Cotsapas — tells about: Praying-Induced Oromandibular Dystonia. (Tihomir V. Ilic, Monika Pötter, Iris Holler, Günther Deuschl, and Jens Volkmann (2005). ‘Praying-Induced Oromandibular […]

Sneezing from a full stomach, medical hazards of mustache wax,  an otorhinolaryngologist, and the international diplomacy of using porcine parts to teach surgery— these all turn up in this week’s Improbable Research podcast. SUBSCRIBE on Play.it, iTunes, or Spotify to get a new episode every week, free. This week, Marc Abrahams  —with dramatic readings by Melissa Franklin — tells about: Sneezing provoked by a full […]

Stool pigeons, clothing-shopping clothing, and the dark attitudes of people who tan themselves in tanning beds — these are the things that turn up in this week’s Improbable Research podcast. SUBSCRIBE on Play.it, iTunes, or Spotify to get a new episode every week, free. This week, Marc Abrahams  —with dramatic readings by Jean Berko Gleason — tells about: Self-control by pigeons. (“Self-Control by Pigeons in the Prisoner’s Dilemma,” […]

Self-proclaimed experts, and the twists and turns of people chewing and swallowing — these are the things that turn up in this week’s Improbable Research podcast. SUBSCRIBE on Play.it, iTunes, or Spotify to get a new episode every week, free. This week, Marc Abrahams tells about: The impossible expertise of self-proclaimed experts. (The Dunning-Kruger Effect / “When Knowledge Knows No Bounds — Self-Perceived Expertise Predicts Claims […]