Here’s the new episode — #121, “Big Bank Opera Rehearsal, Act 1” — of the Improbable Research TV series. The episode depicts an early rehearsal of Act 1 of “The Big Bank Opera”, in which stylish bankers in a swanky Wall Street bar explain the explosive rise and fall of big banking and big bankers. […]
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Robot Sex: The Next Big Tourism Draw May Not Be Disease-Free
Ian Yeoman, a tourism futurist, has predicted that robot prostitution could be a tourism draw in the future, perhaps even in the next 50 years. Dr. Yeoman claims that robot sex workers could have advantages such as not passing on sexually-transmitted diseases. However, any budding robo-entrepreneur should perhaps first take a good, long look at […]
Ig Winning software might have prevented porn Arrest
A South Florida man might have avoided arrest had he installed Ig Nobel-winning catproofing software on his computer. According to the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, a man’s cat has been implicated in his arrest for having child pornography on his computer. Martin County Sheriff’s detectives didn’t buy it when a 48-year-old Jensen Beach man claimed that […]
Test-tubular bliss awaits, or so they say
The Boston Phoenix has made Saturday’s event an “Editor’s Pick”, saying: Saturday, May 02, 2009 Improbable Research Cabaret 2009 Central Square Theater If the thought of blowing tax dollars on grizzly-bear DNA was enough to horrify John McCain, his irritable ticker would no doubt explode were he to attend the Improbable Research Cabaret. One of […]
This Saturday: Improbable Research Cabaret
If you have any questions as to how or whether to use Coca-Cola for birth control, this is your chance to ask someone who really knows. [Update In Response To Questions From Several Individuals: No, Coca-Cola is not sponsoring this event.] This Saturday, May 2nd, will see the very first Improbable Research Cabaret, part of […]
Ig Nobel special ceremony tonight in Genoa
Tonight is Ig Nobel night at the Genoa Science Festival. The event starts at 9:00 pm. at the Ducal Palace. AIR editor Marc Abrahams will introduce several Ig Nobel Prize winners, and will present the prizes to several of the new winners (Italian winner Massimiliano Zampini and French winners Marie-Christine Cadiurges and Christel Joubert) who […]
Ig Nobel special ceremony in Genoa
A special Ig Nobel Prize ceremony will be held at the Festival della Scienza, in Genoa, Italy, on Friday night, October 24. It will begin at 9:00 pm, in the Sala del Maggior Consiglio of the Palazzo Ducale. Two 2008 Ig Nobel Prize-winning teams will receive their Ig Nobel Prizes. (Both teams were unable to […]
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 – […]