Farting Fish and 49 other weird and wonderful scientific discoveries, a new book about Ig Nobel Prize winners, will officially be published (ISBN 9780711298811) on Tuesday, August 19, 2025. Author Alice Harman and illustrator Sam Wedelich gear it to juvenile readers. That includes at least a piece of everyone’s personality, does it not? Like the […]
Jimmy Liao, who was awarded the 2024 Ig Nobel Physics Prize, for for demonstrating and explaining the swimming abilities of a dead trout, did this TED Talk about some of his experience. It’s titled “What studying fish teaches me about human life”: His Ig-winning research studies are: “Neuromuscular Control of Trout Swimming in a Vortex […]
This month’s entry in the “Beneficial Effect of American Cockroach Residue” competition is the study: “Effects of Replacing Fishmeal with American Cockroach Residue on the Growth Performance, Metabolism, Intestinal Morphology, and Antioxidant Capacity of Juvenile Cyprinus carpio,” Xiaofang Zou, Chenggui Zhang, Bingyan Guo, Yu Cao, Yongshou Yang, Peiyun Xiao, and Xiaowen Long, Animals, vol. 14, […]
This week’s Feedback column (that I write) in New Scientist magazine has four segments. Here are bits of each of them: Space politics — The UK is successfully playing catch-up with the US in boosting politicians who speak knowingly of the vast, mostly empty depths of the universe.The UK’s new space minister, Andrew Griffith – his official title is minister […]
