BONUS: The Guardian column about this BONUS: Special mummy issue of the Annals of Improbable Research
Month: October 2010
Power and drinks at the women’s garden club
Professor Douglas Durand monitored the unconscious motivations of 37 women before and after they imbibed alcohol at a regular meeting of their garden club. Garden clubs are a traditional American social institution – small, frequent get-togethers to exchange gossip and the occasional gardening tip. The professor gathered data as to the women’s fantasies about power. […]
The Wug Test and Its Creator
Jean Berko Gleason, known to some as the Welcome Welcome Lecturer at the Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, is known to even more — lots more — people as the creator of the Wug Test. The Secret Life of Scientists takes a look:
Copters and whales… now planes and crabs
Dave Brooks at Granite Geek alerts us to low-flying research that echoes, distantly, the Ig Nobel Prize-winning innovation of using a remote-control helicopter to gather whale snot. The University of New Hampshire news service reports: To survey pits dug by horseshoe crabs in the sediments of the Great Bay Estuary, researchers attached a small camera […]