In America, science has a great day-after-Thanksgiving tradition (we say immodestly): the special Ig Nobel Prize broadcast on National Public Radio’s Talk of the Nation — Science Friday program. This specially edited version of the year’s Ig Nobel Prize ceremony will be the first hour of the two-hour Science Friday program. In most—but not all!—cities this will be from 2:00-3:00 pm. (Some NPR stations schedule it at […]
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Improbable on Science Friday today: Things That Annoy Him
I’m going to be on NPR’s Science Friday program today. We’ll talk about one professor’s fascination with things that annoy him. That professor has published nearly 100 reports about things that annoy him. The reports themselves are not annoying — each report is short (typically just one or two pages) and clear. This segment will be at […]
Improbable on Science Friday today: New book, and the Igs
I’m going to be on NPR’s Science Friday program today, yakking about some of the stranger stories in my new book, This Is Improbable. We will also talk about the upcoming Ig Nobel Prize ceremony. BONUS: Recording and transcript BONUS: Zoltan Egeresi’s patent (#7014147) for a trap-door system to dispose of airplane hijackers
Improbable on “Science Friday” today: Tom Swift
I’m going to be on NPR’s Science Friday program again today, discussing the Tom Swift novels. (Special thanks to Jess Zimmerman for sending a copy of Tom Swift and His Photo Telephone!) BONUS: A repository of info about the Tom Swift books BONUS: Tom Swift and the blessings of invention BONUS: Wikipedia is a good gateway for info about the […]