Cluster Headaches are said to affect around 0.1% of the population and are characterised by very intense pain, usually on just one side of the head. The discomfort is so extreme that even the most experienced physicians might struggle to comprehend degree of suffering of the patient – unless, that is, they were also experiencing […]
Tag: Ice Cream
The Cake of the Book of Improbable, Devoured
Special thanks to Gus Rancatore and his fellow wizards at Toscanini’s Ice Cream for creating (and surprising me with) an Improbably-beautiful, and delicious, one-of-a-kind ice cream cake that recreated the cover of my new book, This Is Improbable. Here’s a photo of that cake (which no longer exists, having been devoured), and a look at […]
Kids’ brain response to ice cream and a milkshake
How does part of the brain respond when you stuff kids with ice cream over a long period of time and then offer them an ice-cream-filled milkshake? This is the first study to involve a scientist named Burger who investigates that question in the particular way that this study goes about it (Thanks to investigator Gus […]
Random-promotion researchers look back
On the (approximate) anniversary of their receiving the Ig Nobel Prize in management, the co-winners send this photo taken during Ig week 2010 when most of that year’s winners gathered at Toscanini’s Ice Cream for a celebration. Andrea Rapisarda writes: Almost one year ago: Ig Nobel prize 2010 for Management A shot taken after we […]