Research and other stuff that makes people LAUGH, then THINK.
The Telegraph Pole Appreciation Society is one of the few organizations that overtly, consistently appreciates what are now more commonly known as telephone poles. They have a web site. This photo of a pole that the society has named the “Charlie Warmington Memorial Pole” appears on that site:
Almost anyone who has spent time cutting a pancake with an exotic knife will acknowledge that it can be interesting. This study, also, acknowledges that cutting a pancake with an exotic knife can be interesting: “Cutting a Pancake with an Exotic Knife,” David O.H. Cutler and Neil J. A. Sloane, arXiv:2511.15864, 2025. (Thanks to Mason […]
“A Canadian journal has issued corrections on 138 case reports it published over the last 25 years to add a disclaimer: The cases described are fictional,” says Retraction Watch, which supplies details. The journal is Paediatrics & Child Health. (Thanks to Eugenie Samuel Reich for bringing this to our attention.)
How Many Slices Does a Mandarin Have? A Three-Year Household Investigation Conducted Under Conditions of Seasonal Citrus Oversupply by David Balmer¹, Gabriel Balmer¹, Siegfried Hapfelmeier², Maria Luisa Balmer²* ¹ Citizen scientists, ² Institute for Infectious Diseases, University of Bern, Switzerland, *Corresponding author Abstract During the European winter months, mandarins and oranges achieve near-monopolistic status in the […]