This week’s Feedback column (that I write) in New Scientist magazine has four segments. Here are bits of each of them: Learning from mole rats — Marketers who specialise in inflammation of the populace won’t have missed the Journal of Experimental Biology‘s appreciation of hyaluronan. Beneath the headline “Underground anti-aging secrets from burrowing rodents“, the journal says… Anarchist […]
The “Unclassified Ads” section of the magazine (Annals of Improbable Research) offers a marketplace for unusual items.
Doc’nRoll tells (in French) about many of their favorite Ig Nobel Prize winners, in this short video:
“Anchovy Sex Is a Force of Nature” is the headline on a Hakai magazine report by Christina Crouch, on February 7, 2024. The report says, in part: …But Castro’s study—which was published in 2022 and won a 2023 Ig Nobel Prize for humorous, thought-provoking scientific achievement—shows that within ocean layers, anchovy spawning causes significant, if subtle, […]
The newspaper La Vanguardia reports about a new revival of the Ig Nobel Prize-winning virtual pet: Tamagotchi lives in Barcelona For an entire generation, Tamagotchi represented a toy that carried responsibility. Those first virtual pets that lived in oval-shaped devices caused a real sensation around the world. Its fame was so great that its authors, […]
The Art, Inc. television program visited our friends and colleagues at the Museum of Bad Art (MOBA). This video is the result of that visit:
Ig Nobel Face-to-Face is a new companion event to the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony. The new Ig Nobel Prize winners gather together to ask each other questions about their work. Each won their prize for doing something that makes people LAUGH, then THINK. The 33rd First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony happened on September 14, […]
If some dinosaurs had wings and flapped them would that frighten insects into fleeing? This study tried to tease out a likely answer, by making and using a dino-like robot. The video shows some of what happened. The study is: “Escape behaviors in prey and the evolution of pennaceous plumage in dinosaurs,” Jinseok Park, Minyoung […]
Congratulations to 2022 Ig Nobel Prize winner Mariska Kret, for winning a new prize. Leiden University, her home institution, announces: Mariska Kret receives new science prize for groundbreaking research 05 February 2024 — Professor Mariska Kret has received the Mercator Sapiens Stimulus, a new science prize from the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities […]
This week’s Feedback column (that I write) in New Scientist magazine has four segments. Here are bits of each of them: Space politics — The UK is successfully playing catch-up with the US in boosting politicians who speak knowingly of the vast, mostly empty depths of the universe.The UK’s new space minister, Andrew Griffith – his official title is minister […]