We invite you (together with as large a group as you can muster) to throw paper planes at the 34th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, to honor the new Ig Nobel Prize winners. This year we will be blending our two paper-airplane-throwing traditions: If you are coming to the 2024 Ig Nobel Prize ceremony […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
