CNRS, France’s venerable research organization, takes a cheery look at some of the many French scientists who have won Ig Nobel Prizes. Here are portions of the CNRS report [machine-translated into English]: Ig-Nobel: science seriously “ This is the prize I always wanted! ” says Daniel Bonn, a CNRS research director currently on secondment at the […]
“An inebriated person in Nice (see Figure 1) takes a walk, each step in one of the four cardinal directions, north (N), south (S), east (E), and west (W). We are interested in those walks beginning at the center of the Promenade des Anglais (at the southern end of town) and ending anywhere on the […]
Jean-Michel Macron is a neurologist who has published several studies about the sneezing of cats. His son is the current president of France. Among Macron’s cat-sneeze studies: Macron on Cat Sneezing (1991) — “Trigeminal afferences implied in the triggering or inhibition of sneezing in cats,” Fabrice Wallois, Jean Michel Macron, Vincent Jounieaux, and Bernard Duron, Neuroscience […]
From the Canada Lancet (June 1901), vol. XXXIV, no. 9, p. 550: An eccentric millionaire, whose amiable fad would have met with the cordial approval of Frederick the Great, has recently died and bequeathed to the municipality of Rouen an annual sum of 100,000 francs, for the purpose of providing a dowry to a couple of […]