Can the public focus on the medical dangers of egg-throwing at Halloween? A research study explores that very question, and we explore that study, in this week’s Improbable Research podcast. SUBSCRIBE on Play.it, iTunes, or Spotify to get a new episode every week, free. This week, Marc Abrahams discusses a published egg-in-your-eye study. Psychologist Jean Berko Gleason lends her voice, and her scientific expertise, and her opinions —with dramatic readings from a research study you […]
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Record duration for boomerang flight: 1440 minutes
The British Boomerang Society presents Bob Reid’s account of breaking the flight duration record for a boomerang throw: “In 1989 I found myself at the South Pole in company with a research assistant, Jay Perrett, who had also caught the boomerang virus. What more natural than to throw my trusty omega around the South Pole. […]
The Effectiveness of Snail-Throwing
Three things — (1) gardeners, (2) snails, and (3) the question of whether the latter (not the former) have a homing instinct — dominate the narrative in this new study: “Snails home,” David J. Dunstan [pictured here] and David J. Hodgson, Physica Scripta, vol. 89, no. 6, 2014, 068002. The authors, at Queen Mary University […]