Almost immediately after the fearful news about elevator buttons, and with the world worried about the Ebola virus, the American Society for Microbiology has issued a press release decrying the dangers of doorknobs. As I wrote here recently, three doctors in Toronto wrote a little study about the bacteria they found on hospital elevator buttons. That study might foster a renewed yearning […]
The bad news sandwich
To set the scene, an Improbable joke. Doctor : “Ah, Mr. Smith, we have some good news and some bad news, which do you want first?” Mr. Smith : “Gimme the bad news doc.” Doctor : “We amputated the wrong foot.” Mr. Smith : “Agggggh ! – And the good news?” Doctor: “The other one’s […]
“Glee in small children” Ig Nobel winner profiled in Spain
The 2001 Ig Nobel Prize for psychology was awarded to Lawrence W. Sherman of Miami University, Ohio, for his study called “An Ecological Study of Glee in Small Groups of Preschool Children.” Now Radio Onda Cero, in Spain, discusses the importance of Sherman’s glee study.
Ig Nobel bellybutton-lint pioneer previews this year’s ceremony
A past Ig Nobel Prize winner gives his personal preview of next week’s Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, in an interview with NineMSN: Look down at your bellybutton – discreetly, if you’re at work. Is there fluff or lint inside it? Yes? There’s a very strong chance that it’s blue. The reasons for this only became […]