Research and other stuff that makes people LAUGH, then THINK.
An appreciative writeup of the recent Dead Duck Day celebration in Rotterdam, which turned out to be the biggest and most festive of the 31 Dead Duck Day celebrations, appears in the news publication De Stadsruit. Bjorn de Leeuw wrote it. Here is a machine translation from the original Dutch into English: Dead Duck Day […]
Michelle Spierings wrote about the recent Ig Nobel show in Leiden, The Netherlands. A behavioral biologist at the Institute of Biology Leiden and the University of Vienna, Austria, Spierings had a starring role in the show. Her essay appears in the July 5, 2026 issue of Bionieuws. Here is a machine translation from the original […]
If you savor jargon-enriched descriptions of iffy much-touted computer-involved approaches to using small amounts of data about things that are difficult to measure and interpret, this study may be of special interest: “AI-driven prediction of consumer liking of coffee from sensory data,” Michael Gunning, Maite Pilar Serantes Laforgue, Jean-Xavier Guinard, and Ilias Tagkopoulos, npc Science […]
The June 2026 issue of mini-AIR, our teeny tiny free little e-newsletter of overflow detritus that did not fit in the magazine (Annals of Improbable Research), has just gone out. The issue contains (among other stuff) info about research on the topic of hammers. It includes announcement of a competition to a write a limerick […]