Pek’s Pictures

Scientific reports don’t have to be dull or overly complex. Consider this passage: “OBJECTIVE: To find out whether taking images of the male and female genitals during coitus is feasible and… So begins this week’s Improbable Research column in The Guardian. Read it here.

Another Look at “Trinkaus: Another Look”

If you you can’t get enough Trinkaus — and be aware that that makes you part of a growing horde — a rich analytical look is now available. Investigator Don Danila has written “Trinkaus: Another Informal Look.” It was published in the Nov/Dec 2003 issue of the Annals of Improbable Research. Partly because of the […]

Five Pages on Cake

If you read our recent column “The Mystery of the Yellow Cake” (in The Guardian) about a mathematics paper called “The Yellow Cake,” and were bemused or confused, here’s a remedy. The phrase “yellow cake” is not explained or even mentioned anywhere in “The Yellow Cake.” That is the mystery. We have just received a […]

March mini-AIR

The March issue of mini-AIR just went out. Read it here. Contents include, among other things: / Teaching: A New Spin / Hotheads, Buckets, and a Book / Non-Cosy Sticky Poet / Beauty and Truth: The Correction / Zweibeck’s Death Challenge / Survey Results: Astronomers vs. Moons / Watch What You Eat Limerick Contest / […]

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