The Ig Nobel Prize-winning study “Fellatio by Fruit Bats Prolongs Copulation Time,” [by Min Tan, Gareth Jones, Guangjian Zhu, Jianping Ye, Tiyu Hong, Shanyi Zhou, Shuyi Zhang and Libiao Zhang, published in PLoS ONE, vol. 4, no. 10, e7595] is one of several intellectual forebears (another is a study by Ig Nobel Prize winner Frans de Waal) […]
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Researchers Love Bears
Some researchers do research about bears. Some researchers do research about Bears. This new study is about Bears: “Physical, Behavioral, and Psychological Traits of Gay Men Identifying as Bears,” David A. Moskowitz [pictured here], Jonathan Turrubiates, Hector Lozano, Christopher Hajek, Archives of Sexual Behavior, epub April 2013. The authors, at The New York Medical College […]
Magazine: Mathematicians & Bears issue
The special Mathematicians & Bears issue (vol. 17, no. 3) of the magazine (the Annals of Improbable Research) is now online. It’s got lots about heads and lots about mathematicians and their problems, and about bears, and much more. The pleasing-paper version was mailed to subscribers a while ago. Click on the magazine cover (below) to […]