Research — on any and all subjects — that makes people LAUGH, then THINK.
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 […]
The phrase (and maybe the very idea of) “pseudo green hair” was introduced to the public in this trichological study: “Pseudo Green Hair,” Xavier Tomas, Marina Nogueras, Alvaro Bartolome, and Juan Ferrando, International Journal of Trichology, vol. 14, 2022, pp. 65-7. The authors report: “we present a case of green hair highlights, coinciding with the […]
This entrancing, well-researched article tells what happened to and because of scientist Saul Justin Newman after he was awarded an Ig Nobel Prize in 2024. You could sum up what happened in just two words: people noticed. But it’s more fun, and more eye-opening and enlightening, to read the juicy (yet judiciously told) details. The […]
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. Both […]
