Venture capitalists use (mostly) other people’s money to make bets on the future, and/or to collect chunks of that money as payment to themselves for collecting the money and gambling some of it. This new paper looks back over how those bets about the future seem to compare with making random guesses: “Do Venture Capitalists […]
If you’d like some warm, Iggy nostalgia, look back to the year before the Covid pandemic arrived. Here are some accolades from home institutions of some of the 2019 Ig Nobel Prize winners. Centre for Quantum Technologies [Singapore]: Cockroaches win award for quantum researchers The application of an advanced quantum technology to cockroaches has won […]
If you want to submit an article for possible publication in the magazine, write it using only the brain inside your head. Please do NOT send us anything ‘written’ with or by an AI program. Recently we have been receiving a wave of articles written by or with ChatGPT, Claude, or some other large language […]
The July 2026 issue of mini-AIR, our teeny tiny free little e-newsletter of overflow detritus that did not fit in the magazine (Annals of Improbable Research), has just gone out. The issue contains (among other stuff) info about research on the carrying capacity of heads. It includes a quick look at the study “Why do […]