The March 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 “Fallacy Fallacy.” It includes the winning entry in the competition to a limerick competition to […]
Some people have strange beliefs about the ear and its malformations. If you are one of those people, and you are curious about what some people in other times and places may have believed, listen to the authors of this study: “The Ear and its Malformations: Strange Beliefs and Misconceptions,” Irene E. Gamatsi, Thomas P. […]
The Telegraph Pole Appreciation Society is one of the few organizations that overtly, consistently appreciates what are now more commonly known as telephone poles. They have a web site. This photo of a pole that the society has named the “Charlie Warmington Memorial Pole” appears on that site:
Patricia Fernández de Lis of the Spanish newspaper El País interviewed me about the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony moving to Europe. Here is the interview machine-translated into English. The original version, in Spanish of course, is on the El País web site. Marc Abrahams, founder of the ‘joke Nobel Prizes’: “Scientists in the US are […]