The Dutch television program NwA’Dam interviewed Kees Moeliker showing exactly where and almost exactly how the famous incident of the homosexual necrophiliac duck occurred. Kees’s eventual published account of the occurrence, of course, led eventually to him being awarded an Ig Nobel Prize. In The Netherlands and elsewhere, every June 5 is now celebrated as […]
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Frank, the trucking duck
Trucker Joe Mansheim from Columbia Heights, Twin Cities, has a buddy called Frank. He is a mallard. Their story is the best duck tale I have come across for a long time. It all started about a year ago when Joe spent $700 dollars on a duck hunting dog, that wouldn’t hunt. His boss quipped […]
Improbable Reunion
An improbable (but real) reunion [see photo] took place during the 2008 Alpbach Technology Forum in Tirol, Austria on August 23, 2008, where I was invited to talk – together with Marc Abrahams – about Improbable Research and the Ig Nobel prizes. Among the other plenary speakers were several Nobel laureates. One of them – […]