Sci has been blogging up at a storm over at SciAm Blogs, talking about this year’s IgNobel prize winners!! Make sure to check out the coverage of chimps who can recognize other chimps by their butts, the town that had green hair, and the fluid dynamics of why your coffee won’t stop freakin’ spilling when […]
Sci has been blogging up a storm over at SciAm Blogs, talking about this year’s IgNobel Prize winners! It was a great ceremony and a really fun time, and now I’m blogging each and every winner, from the people who use old ammunition to make diamonds, the people who wrote the reports on the reports […]
Yes! Sci was in Boston last night (wish I could stay, but I am like a ninja. A ninja of SCIENCE) for the 2012 IGNOBEL PRIZES! It was a super fun ceremony this year, with the usual paper airplane throwing, moments of science, and someone describing the whole of the universe using balloons and pie. […]
Today’s Friday Weird Science comes to you courtesy of Marc Abrahams, the founder of the IgNobel Prizes (which I’m going to next week! So excited!!). The study was featured in his new book, This is Improbable, and Marc was kind enough to send me a copy of this paper when I asked about it. (Ok, […]
…ok I guess that probably won’t work for some of us. Fake beards, maybe? (I love the look on her face. Source) I know a guy with a rather luxuriant amount of facial hair. I once asked him if he ever put sunblock on it. Get in the cracks, you know? He said of course […]
Sci is dealing with some personal stuff right now, and can’t post today. I offer up this repost as a piece of glory from the early days, all the way back in 2009! 🙂 Every once in a while, when I look at the lit, I’m truly amazed by the things people report in. This […]
No really. A fetish. Or rather, an animal MODEL of a fetish. Or at least, that’s the idea behind today’s study, which is a study of sexual conditioning. And WHAT animal is going to be the subject of such scientific debauchery??? (Source) Everyone please give a big welcome to one dirty little bird, the Japanese […]
Yes! I’m very happy to say I’ll be at the IgNobels again this year, tweeting live from the ceremony and interviewing as many winners as I can get my grubby little paws on. Most of the action will be happening over at Sci Am Blogs, and you should definitely follow along! I can’t wait to […]
YES. YES. There is something called the Toot Trapper and it exists. This alone should be enough to make your day. It certainly made mine! Honestly, as with many of the papers I write for Friday Weird Science, it’s the methods of this paper that really take the cake. Beans, rectal tubes, Mylar pants, and […]
I can’t help it, I read the abstract of this and just… But fear not, horny teenagers everywhere! You now have a scientific excuse for wanting to get it on in the hot days of summer. And the cold nights of winter. For all the horniness during spring and fall? Sorry, you’re on your own. […]