Lots of big ideas about brine shrimp and lots of other stuff are on display in this paper: “Loving the Brine Shrimp: Exploring Queer Feminist Blue Posthumanities to Reimagine the ‘America’s Dead Sea’, ” Ewelina Jarosz, Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, vol. 38, no. 1, 2025. (Thanks to Ron Josephson for bringing this to […]
The special QUESTIONS issue (volume 31, number 3, May/June 2025) of the magazine Annals of Improbable Research has gone go out to subscribers. Even if you are not a subscriber you can read several of its articles online free, for looks at many kinds of questions: Baby Questions Economics Questions Medical Questions Behavior Questions Biology Questions Food […]
Psychologists must sometimes find new depths of cleverness and gumption when they confront a new kind of problem. A historic example of this is Jackson and Schoenfeld’s attack on the question of deodorants. Details are in their study: “Experimental and Statistical Analysis of the Effectiveness of Deodorant Creams,” T.A. Jackson, E.A. Jerome, and N. Schoenfeld, […]
This photo shows the latest in our series of experiments in which a good artist live-illustrates a lecture. This was at the NEMO science museum in Amsterdam, on April 15, 2025. The show was the concluding event in the 2025 Ig Nobel EuroTour. The photo (taken by NEMO’s ace photographer) shows artist Keira Lee Rice […]