Two new TV adventure documentaries about Ig Nobel Prize winners, produced by the NHK network, will be broadcast this week on NHK in Japan (and NHK World, worldwide), and also in the USA on the PBS network. The first will be on Tuesday, March 25, 2025. The second will be on Thursday, March 27. Both […]
This year’s Ig Nobel Euro (and Brexitannia) Tour begins a few days from now, with events in Switzerland, the UK, and The Netherlands. It stars many Ig Nobel Prize winners — each has done something so surprising that it makes people LAUGH, then THINK. Here is the schedule: Monday, March 31, 2025, 6:00 pm — […]
Piecewise, some of the mysteries about stacking blocks reveal themselves (or get revealed). This study looks at some of the stochastic stability of some kinds of heaping of blocks: “Stochastic Stability of Random Stacking of Blocks,” V. Denoël, International Journal of Solids and Structures, vol. 305, 2024, article 113094. The author, at the University of […]
This month’s entry in the “Beneficial Effect of American Cockroach Residue” competition is the study: “Effects of Replacing Fishmeal with American Cockroach Residue on the Growth Performance, Metabolism, Intestinal Morphology, and Antioxidant Capacity of Juvenile Cyprinus carpio,” Xiaofang Zou, Chenggui Zhang, Bingyan Guo, Yu Cao, Yongshou Yang, Peiyun Xiao, and Xiaowen Long, Animals, vol. 14, […]