Ian Yeoman, a tourism futurist, has predicted that robot prostitution could be a tourism draw in the future, perhaps even in the next 50 years. Dr. Yeoman claims that robot sex workers could have advantages such as not passing on sexually-transmitted diseases. However, any budding robo-entrepreneur should perhaps first take a good, long look at […]
Month: August 2009
Ig night party in Philly
The Chemical Heritage Foundation will throw a party —on Thursday night, October 1— to watch the live webcast of the 2009 Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony. If your institution would like to throw an Ig-watching party in some other city or town, please get in touch with us at Improbable Research, so we can help spread […]
New organ => personality change?
Scientific studies have suggested that up to a third of organ transplant patients believe they have inherited changes in their personalities, preferences and skills from their donors. So explains an August 20, 2009 article in the Telegraph under the headline “Father develops cleaning obsession after cornea transplant”. The Telegraph article also says: Before the operation, […]
The temperature of romantic love
He took the thermometer from her and glanced at it quickly. “Normal. No germs here. It would be perfectly safe to kiss you.” He pulled her up into his arms. That’s a passage from the final page of Barbara Bonham’s novel called Diagnosis Love. The Judgeabook blog remarks: ” I really hope that thermometer was […]