Are there hat-wearing patterns in spectators who attended baseball games — patterns that might be discernible over a ten-year period, patterns that might be exploitable? This study claims to begin to answer those questions. “Hat-wearing Patterns in Spectators Attending Baseball Games: a 10-Year Retrospective Comparison,” Aaron S. Farberg, Stephen Donohue, and Darrell S. Rigel, Cutis, […]
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Questions about Jerry’s Maggot
The questions precede the text. The questions, presented on Ms. Barker’s Science Wiki, are: Read the attached article titled, Jerry’s Maggot. On a separate sheet of paper respond to the following questions, using complete sentences, based on your knowledge of biology and your personal opinion. 1. What is Jerry’s “problem” and how did he get […]
The special HUMAN HEADS issue of the magazine is out!
The special HUMAN HEADS And GARLIC issue (vol. 22, no. 1) of the magazine (the Annals of Improbable Research) is now out! It’s bursting (as are all our issues) with carefully culled, improbable research snippets about everything, from anywhere, more or less. This is the very first issue of our all-PDF era. We hope you enjoy it, and that you will […]
Forge a head: Two ears bad, Four ears good
A dummy head (or Kunstkopf) is sometimes used to create ‘binaural’ recordings. There can however, be a problem with this approach – in the sense that from the listener’s point of view, it’s not always completely clear which way is the head facing, could it be back to front? Researchers at the Virtual Acoustics and […]