The January 2026 issue of mini-AIR, our teeny tiny free little e-newsletter of overflow detritus that did not fit in the magazine (Annals of Improbable Research), has just gone out. The issue contains info about research on the topic of “This and That.” It includes the winning entry in the competition to create a limerick […]
“Chickens Prefer Beautiful Humans“, according to the title of the research study by Stefano Ghirlanda, Liselotte Jansson, and Magnus Enquist of Stockholm University, honored by the 2003 Ig Nobel Prize for Interdisciplinary Research. That study was published in the journal Human Nature (vol. 13, no. 3, 2002, pp. 383-9.) Twenty-three years later, a Reuters video news […]
Midlogphase reviews my book (the book came out a decade ago) This is Improbable. Midlogphase says: This is a book that you shouldn’t read really fast. This is not a sit down page turner book. This is a book you should read very very slowly. “This is “Improbable”. [These are] things that will make you […]
Alan Alda and Marc Abrahams chatted about the Ig Nobel Prizes and improbable research and much more, on the Clear + Vivid with Alan Alda podcast. The general theme of it all was “laugh then think”.