“Food Idiosyncrasies: Beetroot and Asparagus,” S.C. Mitchell, Drug Metabolism and Disposition, vol. 29, no. 4, part 2, 2001, pp. 539-43 (http://dmd.aspetjournals.org/cgi/content/full/29/4/539). (Thanks to Danny O’Hare for bringing this to our attention.) The author, at Imperial College School of Medicine, London, reports: Anecdotal observations scattered throughout the literature have often provided clues to underlying variations in […]
Month: August 2008
Boredom?
“Boredom and the Yawn,” Linda A. Bell, Review of Existential Psychology and Psychiatry, vol. 17, no. 1, 1980-1981, pp. 91-100. In it, Bell: Discusses Sartre’s views in Nausea on boredom and the yawn, asserting that boredom is connected with facticity — the aspect of self most closely connected with the being of things–and not with […]
Barack Obama Will Win the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election
Now that both major political parties have announced their nominees for president and vice president, the Annals of Improbable Research U.S. Presidential Election Algorithm (Debowy and Schulman 2003) can be used to predict the results of the upcoming November election. The algorithm was developed based on the experience of the major party candidates for president […]
August mini-AIR
The August issue of mini-AIR just went out. Topics include: Most-Absurd-Drug-Name Compendium — Selection #1; Ig Nobel Tickets; Presidential Election Statistical Predictor; Scientist Wrestlers; Cheek/Tongue/Bread Poet; Regge Pole Limerick Competition; Bacteria and the Burnt Pancake; The Cox-Zucker Machine; Bikinis and Sneeze Raccoon Eyes;; etc. (If you would like to have mini-AIR automatically sent to your […]