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Solar protectivity of beards and moustaches, tested 27 Aug 2013 | 04:41 pm
Dr Alfio V Parisi [pictured here] and his team stuck beards and moustaches on some dummies, put them out in the hot, hot sun, and measured what happened. They did this after they had run a related exp...
1983 Doorknob correction 27 Aug 2013 | 09:02 am
A correction from the June 1983 issue of Doorknob Collector: “In the last issue we incorrectly identified the knob at left as coming from the LaSalle Hotel. The knob is actually from the Lexington Ho...
Sad news: Ig Nobel winner John Mainstone has died 27 Aug 2013 | 04:38 am
Professor John Mainstone, co-winner of the 2005 Ig Nobel Prize for physics, has died. That prize was awarded to John Mainstone and the late Thomas Parnell of the University of Queensland, Australia, ...
Spectacular anatomy lesson 27 Aug 2013 | 02:42 am
A spectacular new understanding or misunderstanding of anatomy is on display in Figure 1 of a new study (click on this link download a PDF of the study). The caption there says: Fig. 1. CT scan of ab...
Discovery: Students Who Do Homework Get Higher Grades 27 Aug 2013 | 02:16 am
A proud press release from East Carolina University announces: Department of Economics professor Dr. Nick Rupp, who counts education tactics among his research interests, recently published the resul...
Cockroaches of the world, disunite! 26 Aug 2013 | 09:23 pm
AFP reports on the sudden existence of a cockroach diaspora: One million cockroaches reportedly flee farm in China At least one million cockroaches have reportedly escaped from a farm in China where...
To appreciate and/or make Martian wine 26 Aug 2013 | 07:48 pm
Is wine as sweet (or as dry, or as whatever) if the grapes are grown in Martian soil? The Martian Terroir project aims or claims to aim to find out. The organizers explain: Terroir could be defined ...
Emotional Gauging of Students via Forehead Wrinkle Extraction 26 Aug 2013 | 06:02 pm
It’s not always easy to gauge whether students have understood lesson content (or not). Perhaps an automated measuring system could be devised – measuring their forehead wrinkles for example? At least...
“Di-Methyl-Doorknob and the Right to Know” 26 Aug 2013 | 05:02 pm
Lingo and euphemism inspire the prose of this short treatise: “Di-Methyl-Doorknob and the Right to Know,” Harold J. Corbett, EPA Journal, vol. 11, 1985, p. 12.
Working to isolate graphene, on national TV 26 Aug 2013 | 07:35 am
The important activity in this PBS NewsHour interview is happening in the background. David Kessler, co-producer of the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, doggedly works away with a pencil and Scotch tape to tr...
