Ig Nobel Prize winner Saul Justin Newman has an essay in today’s New York Times about the research that won him the 2024 Ig Nobel Prize for demography. (The Times did not mention that the research won a prize. The Times did write an extensive report about it, shortly after that prize was awarded.) Newman’s […]
CHAPTER 1: The Beginning On this, the first day of the USA’s Festival of Looting and Destruction, we at Improbable Research received an email message from a fraudster in China. A few days ago we were warned by an another fraudster in China that the first fraudster was trying to register domain names that would […]
We will be doing an Improbable Dramatic Readings session this Friday night, January 17, 2025, at Arisia, the scifi con in Boston, beginning at 8:00 pm. WHERE: Arisia, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, in the Hyatt Regency Boston/Cambridge Hotel. WHAT: Improbable Dramatic Readings (read aloud by probably dramatic readers) of very brief extracts from improbably exciting genuine […]
In what ways, for what purposes, are people using frozen dog sperm? The answer, or parts of it, are revealed in this study: “Rising trends in the use of frozen dog sperm: a retrospective study in Belgium and the Netherlands,” Guillaume Domain, Maarten Kappen, Amber Van Mil, Ilse De Beijer, Matthieu Van Puyvelde, Robby Van […]