An almost-Nakamatsian invention would let human runners run much faster, explains a new study: “How to run 50% faster without external energy,” Amanda Sutrisno and David J. Braun, Science Advances, vol. 6, no. 13, March 25, 2020, eaay1950. The authors, at Vanderbilt University, report: “Humans have attempted to surpass their natural running capability using springs […]
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Podcast Episode #206: “Flatulence in Dogs”
Flatulence in Dogs, the Real-Life Wizard of Oz, Triskadekaphobia When People Buy a House, Boys Will Be Boys, Why Your Doctor Should Smell, Soft is Hard, You Bastard, and Personal Space at the Beach. In episode #206, Marc Abrahams shows some unfamiliar research studies to Nicole Sharp, Robin Abrahams, Melissa Franklin, Chris Cotsapas, Jean Berko […]
Dr. Nakamats is always on the job
Dr. Nakamats has another new invention.
A nice new, short video portrait of Dr. Nakamats
Great Big Story made this documentary about Ig Nobel Prize winner Dr. Nakamats. The producers introduce it by saying: “His best thinking happens during the third movement of Beethoven’s Fifth, in a gold-plated room and when he’s mere moments from death. He writes his name “NakaMats,” but that’s Dr. Nakamatsu to you. He’s dapper, 91 […]
Dr. Nakamats’s new invention: Extra-functional eyeglasses
Dr. Nakamats, the world’s most prolific (more than 3500 patents) inventor, and winner of the 2005 Ig Nobel Prize for nutrition, had just obtained yet another patent. His Extra-functional eyeglasses function as traditional eyeglasses do, and also perform extra services for the person wearing them. The invention exists in several different flavors: Night-walking glasses, which provide light when […]
Dr. Nakamats, still very much alive, to have 88th birthday party, in NYC
The very much one-and-only Dr. Nakamats, who among his many other accomplishments (2) is an Ig Nobel Prize winner and (1) has outmaneuvered doctors’ predictions that he would die in 2015, will enliven his 88th birthday party by traveling to it. If you will be in New York City on Friday evening, September 23 (the […]
Another new, inventive documentary about Dr. Nakamats
There is yet another new documentary about Dr. Nakamats, the man who has more than 3500 patents and who was awarded an Ig Nobel Prize (in 1995, for having photographed every meal he had consumed for the previous 34 years), and who is still alive despite the predictions of his doctors. CNN’s Make, Create, Innovate […]
Dr. NakaMats, continued!
Gamely defying the predictions of his doctors, Dr. NakaMats is (1) still alive, and (2) still holding press conferences. On December 25, 2015 he sent us this note, from his home in Tokyo: Yesterday I had the press conference at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club for the following important notice: Today is 7 days before estimated death […]
Podcast #17: The real-life Wizard of Oz
The real-life Wizard of Oz, artificial fruit processing in children and chimps, and other things, turn up in this week’s Improbable Research podcast. Click on the “Venetian blinds” icon — at the lower right corner here — to select whichever week’s episode you want to hear: SUBSCRIBE on Play.it or iTunes, to get a new episode every week, free. [NEWS: Soon, the podcast […]
The final birthday party of Dr. Nakamats, this Friday in Tokyo
I am traveling to Tokyo to take part in the final birthday party — that’s how he describes it — of Dr. Nakamats, the world’s most inventive inventor (more than 3500 patents, including patents for the floppy disk, the self-defense wig, and flying shoes), author, political candidate, Ig Nobel Prize winner (in 2005, for having photographed […]