BPS Research Digest reports: Free personality tests are more reliable and efficient than the paid variety In most areas of life, we expect the free versions of products to be sub-standard compared with the “premium” paid-for versions. After all, why would anyone pay for something if the free equivalent were better? However, a new study […]
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Official word: The body of Christ is not and cannot be gluten-free
If you are Catholic, what if you are allergic to the body of Christ? The answer may be hard to swallow. Monsignor Mark J. Merdian [pictured here] takes a stab at solving the problem. His analysis appears in the magazine Homiletic and Pastoral Review: Celiac Disease and Holy Communion: A Medical and Spiritual Dilemma In […]
Ig Nobel Prize-winning Tamagotchi now made free to the public
Tamagotchi, an invention that earned its inventors an Ig Nobel Prize, is now available to the public free, in the form of a downloadable app. The 1997 Ig Nobel Prize for economics was awarded to Akihiro Yokoi of Wiz Company in Chiba, Japan and Aki Maita [pictured here] of Bandai Company in Tokyo, the father and mother […]
Instruction for those who would behave too rationally
Ig Nobel Prize winner Dan Ariely is teaching a new online course called “A beginner’s guide to irrational behavior.” Perhaps irrationally, it’s free. Ariely and colleagues Rebecca L. Waber, Baba Shiv, and Ziv Carmon were awarded the 2008 Ig Nobel Prize in medicine for demonstrating that high-priced fake medicine is more effective than low-priced fake medicine. [REFERENCE: “Commercial Features of Placebo […]
Announcing the e-book version of the Annals of Improbable Research
We are now publishing each issue of our magazine — the Annals of Improbable Research — as an e-book, as well as on paper. We think our little invention is a big deal for anyone who publishes magazines — and for anyone who reads them. We invite you to download a free e-book issue of the Annals of […]