The 25th Dead Duck Day, on June 5th, which was postponed from 2020 until 2021, will be more or less postponed till 2022, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. So be on the lookout for the special (postponed) 25th anniversary edition in 2022. This year, like last year, Dead Duck Day will have only two participants […]
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International Bat Night is Not Bat Day at Yankee Stadium
Tonight, August 29, 2020, is International Bat Night. The UNEP/Eurobats organization explains: The Bat Night has taken place every year since 1997 in more than 30 countries on the last full weekend of August. Nature conservation agencies and NGOs from across Europe pass on information to the public about the way bats live and their […]
Wednesday is Dead Duck Day
The 24th annual Dead Duck Day celebration happens on Wednesday, June 5, 2019. Dead Duck Day honors the mallard duck that became known to science as the first (documented) ‘victim’ of homosexual necrophilia in that species, and earned its discoverer, Kees Moeliker, the 2003 Ig Nobel Biology Prize. Kees Moeliker, who is now director of the […]
Does an apple a day improve a woman’s sex life? [podcast #79]
The question “Does an apple a day improve a woman’s sex life?” anchors this week’s Improbable Research podcast. SUBSCRIBE on Play.it, iTunes, or Spotify to get a new episode every week, free. This week, Marc Abrahams — with dramatic readings by Yale/MIT/Harvard biomedical researcher Chris Cotsapas — tells about: Does an apple a day improve a woman’s sex life? — “Apple Consumption is Related to Better Sexual Quality […]
‘Social jetlag’ between dogs and humans across Europe
“People choosing a pet have a number of factors to consider. The important one is whether a pet can synchronize with humans in sleep timing.“ – explain a pan-European [Germany | Poland | Spain] research team in a 2015 paper for the scholarly journal Time & Society. The investigators reasoned that pet dogs and their […]
When are World Standards Day?
The world is still trying, and not trying, to standardize World Standards Day. This year, World Standards Day was celebrated on October 14, 2015. In the USA, World Standards Day was celebrated on September 28-October 2, 2015. Last year, 2014, things were different. World Standards Day was on October 14, 2014. The USA celebrated World […]
International Vulture Awareness Day (2015)
A reminder – “The first Saturday in September each year is International Vulture Awareness Day.” Details of IVAD 2015 can be found here.
World Sword Swallower’s Day, created by an Ig Nobel Prize winner
Today, February 22, is International Sword Swallowers Day, created by sword swallower — and Ig Nobel Prize winner — Dan Meyer, who also created the organization Sword Swallowers Association International, of which he serves as president. Dan, an American, together with Dr. Brian Witcombe, a Briton, shared the 2007 Ig Nobel Prize for medicine, for their penetrating […]
A reminder: Dead Duck Day is June 5
Kees Moeliker reminds us that Dead Duck Day is coming: Wednesday June 5th it is Dead Duck Day again. At exactly 17:55h we will honor the mallard duck that became known to science as the first (documented) ‘victim’ of homosexual necrophilia in that species. Please join for this short open-air ceremony next to the new wing of the Natural History […]
Non-Uniform Day versus World Standards Day
Today’s cogno-intellectual exercise: Compare and contrast Non-Uniform Day with World Standards Day