“Female Japanese Quail Affiliate With Live Males That They Have Seen Mate on Video,” A.G. Ophir and B.G. Galef, Jr., Animal Behaviour, vol. 66, no. 2, pp. 369—75. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/anbe.2003.2229). (Thanks to Elinor Lichtenberg for bringing this to our attention.) (That’s an excerpt from the article “Boys Will Be Boys,” Published in AIR 14:4.)
Fake Monkey Automatons
Beware of fake monkey automatons (or, if you are a purist: automata). Don’t be fooled, these are of completely modern fabrication, and virtually all of them seen to date did at one time have a fairly large, old-looking makers label glued to the rear panel. We’ve only found one example so far, from a collector […]
Horsetail: Kervran’s inspiration
1993 Ig Nobel Biology Prize winner Louis Kervran’s discoveries (among other things, Kervran said that that the calcium in chickens’ eggshells is created by a process of cold fusion) inspired a video producer to make this micro-documentary. Most biologists are unaware of Kervran’s theories, just as Kervran himself may have been aware of much of […]
Attention, inventeurs! C’est Milken!
An item in Le Figaro Magazine celebrates the legacy of Ig Nobel Prize winner Michael Milken: Attention, inventeurs! PAR CHRISTOPHE DORE 17/10/2008 Les prix Ig Nobel sont décernés aux génies qui explorent tout, même les impasses de la connaissance. Grâce à eux, on sait que les puces de chien sautent plus haut que celles des […]