The special MORBID (volume 30, number 5, September/October 2024) issue of the magazine Annals of Improbable Research will soon 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 morbid research: dead reckoning, morbid curiosity, Brazilian butt-lift death, curiosity and cats, drinking […]
The 34th First annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony will happen on Thursday, September 12th, 2024, starting at 6:00pm US Eastern time. If you are unable to get a ticket to attend in person, you can watch the live webcast (for free!), here on the Improbable Research web site and on YouTube.
This is another drawing by artist Becky Moon, about her favorite Ig Nobel Prize winners. Moon has been a scholar of the Ig Nobel Prizes since she was a young teenager. This one celebrates the Ig Nobel Linguistics Prize awarded in 2007 to Juan Manuel Toro, Josep B. Trobalon and Núria Sebastián-Gallés, for showing that rats sometimes cannot tell the […]
This week’s Feedback column (that I write) in New Scientist magazine has five segments. Here are bits of each of them: The raw-broccoli experiment — What would be the effect on young adults and young children of seeing positive expressions on the faces of strangers who are eating raw broccoli? Katie Edwards at Aston University, UK, together with […]