Michael Jacksonization, bomb bay door, and bird all appear in Improbable Research Collection #102: Our series of tiny bits-and-pieces videos peeks at improbable research — research that makes people laugh, then think. Here, below, is a skimpy guide to these little videos. We might make some more.
Tag: Michael Jackson
Improbable Research Podcast #3: Michael Jackson Surgery
Surgery to make someone look like Michael Jackson dominates this week’s Improbable Research podcast. The podcast is all about research that makes people LAUGH, then THINK — research about anything and everything, from everywhere —research that’s good or bad, important or trivial, valuable or worthless. CBS distributes it, both on the new CBS Play.it web site, and on iTunes. Podcast #3: Michael […]
Then: Michael Jackson surgery. Now: Justin Bieber surgery.
The Daily Mail reports the occurrence of surgery to make a British man look like singer Justin Bieber. This follows in the tradition established by the surgeons who rearranged a Belgian man in an effort to make him look like singer Michael Jackson. The photo below shows some of the pages of the medical journal […]
A fairly novel way to display bugs
Researchers at Toolik Field Station, Alaska, made this brief video of native bugs at work or play. The filming occurred at a place and moment in which it also captured a performance, by some of their fellow researchers, of Michael Jackson’s song “Thriller“. This is reportedly the northernmost performance of that song: (HT @ErinPodolak) BONUS: […]