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Dead Duck Day 2025 — Celebrate on June 5

Ponta Delgada · Ponta Delgada

Dead Duck Day 2025 — Celebrate on June 5

This year’s Dead Duck Day official celebration will be in the Azores. And of course you can celebrate it wherever you are. The celebration will happen on June 5, 2025, Thursday, 15:55 [Azores time], at the Museum Carlos Machado, Santo André Center, Ponta Delgada, São Miguel Island, Azores. This will be the 30th Dead Duck […]Read Article

Is Anything That’s Alive Kind of Complicated?

Is Anything That’s Alive Kind of Complicated?

Question: Is anything that’s alive kind of complicated? Answer: Now that you mention it, yes. Here’s a little (but this little is a lot) of what people have managed to figure out about what’s happening moment to moment in a wee, tiny little bacterium that has a fancy name (“Escherichia coli K-12 MG1655“). You can […]Read Article

Calculating the guano-equivalent output of NYC residents

A simple calculation was described in the caption to the photo you see here, when that photo appeared in the report “The U.S. empire was built on bird dung” by Sunjata Gupta, in the January 2025 issue of Science News. The caption says: “From roughly 1845 to 1880, prospectors in Peru (shown here loading up […]New York State · New York Read Article

The special QUESTIONS issue of the magazine (Improbable Research)

The special QUESTIONS issue (volume 31, number 3, May/June 2025) of the magazine Annals of Improbable Research has gone go out to subscribers. Even if you are not a subscriber you can read several of its articles online free, for looks at many kinds of questions: Baby Questions Economics Questions Medical Questions Behavior Questions Biology Questions Food […]Read Article

Psychology Tackles a New Question: Deodorants (1942)

Psychologists must sometimes find new depths of cleverness and gumption when they confront a new kind of problem. A historic example of this is Jackson and Schoenfeld’s attack on the question of deodorants. Details are in their study: “Experimental and Statistical Analysis of the Effectiveness of Deodorant Creams,” T.A. Jackson, E.A. Jerome, and N. Schoenfeld, […]Psychology Read Article

Reported Benefits of Swaying While Standing

Perhaps your thoughts will be swayed by the argument made in this study: “Benefits of Swaying While Standing to Higher Selective Attention in Goal-Directed Visual Tasks,” Anke Hua, Mélen Guillaume, Sergio T. Rodrigues, Fabio A. Barbieri, and Cédrick T. Bonnet, Human Movement Science, vol. 99, February 2025, article 103318. The authors explain: “Overall, our finding […]Read Article

Ig Nobel Events in Southern California (May 2-5, 2025)

The Ig Nobel Southern Cal Tour begins a few days from now, with events in Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, and Irvine. It’s all about Ig Nobel Prize winners and other people who have done things so surprising that they make people LAUGH, then THINK. All three events are open to the public, free. Here is […]UCLA · Los Angeles Read Article

A Transactional Effect of String Cheese on Internet Commerce

String cheese plays a literally remarkable role in US patent 9424840B1, which was granted on August 23, 2016. As illustrated in the drawing you see here, the patent includes this passage: FIG. 1A, for instance, illustrates the user providing an example request 128(1). Here, the user 104 states “I’d like some string cheese, please.” In response to generating an audio […]United States · United States Read Article

Kind Thoughts for the Vulnerable Artificially Intelligent

Consider the plight of hypothetical artificially intelligent beings. This study worries about exactly that: “Taking AI Welfare Seriously,” Robert Long, Jeff Sebo, Patrick Butlin, Kathleen Finlinson, Kyle Fish, Jacqueline Harding, Jacob Pfau, Toni Sims, Jonathan Birch, and David Chalmers, arXiv 2411.00986, 2024. The authors explain: “We argue that there is a realistic possibility that some […]Read Article

Ig Nobel Prizes — Two New NHK TV Documentaries

Two new TV adventure documentaries about Ig Nobel Prize winners, produced by the NHK network, will be broadcast this week on NHK in Japan (and NHK World, worldwide), and also in the USA on the PBS network. The first will be on Tuesday, March 25, 2025. The second will be on Thursday, March 27.Tokyo, Japan · Tokyo Read Article

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