“As with many areas of science, humans went into it assuming that they pretty much knew what they were going to discover, and that refining their instruments would just make their existing simplistic picture clearer. And as usual, they were wrong.” —Helen Czerski, on page 241 her book The Blue Machine (W.W. Norton, publishers, 2023) […]
Are krill charismatic, in human eyes? Should they be? What bodes this? Those questions are addressed in the study: “Charismatic Krill? Size and Conservation in the Ocean,” Elizabeth Leane and Steve Nicol, Anthrozoos: A Multidisciplinary Journal of The Interactions of People & Animals, Volume 24, Number 2, June 2011 , pp. 135-146(12). The authors explain: […]
We have a column called “Boys Will Be Boys — Research by and for adolescent males of all ages and sexes“, that runs in every issue of our magazine, the Annals of Improbable Research. Occasionally, someone complains that the column appeals only to males, males who are especially juvenile. But our experience with readers says […]
A song about the Ebbesmeyer analysis of rubber ducks and ocean currents: A demonstration in which a Salmon (Felix Salmon) uses rubber ducks in water to explain the Greek financial crisis:
