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May mini-AIR: Bang-Bang control, and all that

Monday, May 14th, 2012

The May issue of mini-AIR just went out. Topics include:

  • Bang-Bang Control
  • Dead Duck day is Coming
  • and more

It also has this winning entry (by INVESTIGATOR PATRICK MCKEON) for last month’s competition. which asked for a limerick to honor the study “‘Oenodynamic’: Hydrodynamic of Wine Swirling” (with video):

In a lab during end of year crunch,
Thought a researcher needing a hunch:
“This wine I do cherish,
So (publish or perish!)
I’ll send in a film of my lunch.”

Mel [pictured here] says, “It’s swell.” (mini-AIR is the simplest way to keep informed about Improbable and Ig Nobel news and events. Just add yourself to the mini-AIR list, and mini-AIR will be emailed to you every month)

April issue of mini-AIR

Tuesday, April 24th, 2012

The April issue of mini-AIR just went out. Topics include:

  • Wine, With or Without Women, and Song
  • Wine Swirling Limerick Competition
  • Crumpled-Paper Poets
  • Upcoming Show in Cambridge
  • Mousy Smell in Wine
  • and more

Mel [pictured here] says, “It’s swell.”

(mini-AIR is the simplest way to keep informed about Improbable and Ig Nobel news and events. Just add yourself to the mini-AIR list, and mini-AIR will be emailed to you every month)

March issue of mini-AIR

Sunday, March 4th, 2012

The March issue of mini-AIR just went out. Topics include:

  • The Dilemma of Lumps in Surfers’ Chins
  • Crumpled-Paper Limerick Competition
  • Meal Order Reversal Poet
  • Geek Speak Peck Port Geeks Peak
  • Ig Nobel winners to descend upon Europe & India
  • and more

Mel [pictured here] says, “It’s swell.”

(mini-AIR is the simplest way to keep informed about Improbable and Ig Nobel news and events. Just specify your email address, and mini-AIR will be emailed to you every month)

February issue of mini-AIR

Sunday, February 12th, 2012

The February issue of mini-AIR just went out. Topics include:

  • Inaccurate Children
  • Meal Order Reversal / Candy Limerick Competition
  • Sandwich Crawler Poet
  • Ultrastructure of a Copepod Fecal Pellet
  • Chopsticks / Moving Beans Test / Purdue Pegboard
  • and more

Mel [pictured here] says, “It’s swell.”

(mini-AIR is the simplest way to keep informed about Improbable and Ig Nobel news and events. Just specify your email address, and mini-AIR will be emailed to you every month)

January issue of mini-AIR

Friday, January 13th, 2012

The January issue of mini-AIR just went out. Topics include:

  • Front-Brain & Rear-Brain Learners [a new cogno-intellectual project]
  • Chewing Sounds
  • Salt-On-Salt Poet
  • Crispy,Crunchy, Crackly
  • and more

Mel [pictured here] says, “It’s swell.”

(mini-AIR is the simplest way to keep informed about Improbable and Ig Nobel news and events. Just specify  your email address, and mini-AIR will be emailed to you every month)