by John Trinkaus, Baruch College, City University...  ...Professor Trinkaus is publishing in the Annals of Improbable Research . The first, “Hand Sanitizing: An Informal Look,...  ...from the July-August 2010 issue of the Annals of Improbable Research . You can download or purchase back issues of the...  ...om...

A look back at an ovoidal innovation and other wor...  ...novation and other work compiled by Stephen Drew, Improbable Research staff The name of inventor Hiram S. Dotts is n...  ...the September-October 2008 issue of the Annals of Improbable Research . You can download or purchase back issues of the...  ...o...

Words: Marc Abrahams Music: Jacques Offenbach, Gi...  ...010. Video of the performance can be seen at www. improbable .com. Original Cast Stage manager and conducto...  ...the November-December 2010 issue of the Annals of Improbable Research . You can download or purchase back issues of the...  ...omeone a...

The following article is from the science humor ma...  ...icle is from the science humor magazine Annals of Improbable Research . (Image credit: Flickr user Jean-Etienne Minh...  ...ne Minh-Duy Poirrier) by Alice Shirrell Kaswell, Improbable Research staff The year 1931 stands out in the history...  ......

An abandoned way to frighten a frightening animal...  ...y to frighten a frightening animal by Nan Swift, Improbable Research staff These drawings tell the purpose and the...  ...ion from the May-June 2011 issue of the Annals of Improbable Research . You can download or purchase back issues of the...  ...ome...

Dr. Levin's golden grid. A mathematical gauging...  ...gauging of a smile by Alice Shirrell Kaswell, Improbable Research staff Dr. Eddy Levin of Harley Street puts a...  ...is from the May-June 2009 issue of the Annals of Improbable Research . You can download or purchase back issues of the...  ...omeon...

by Ernest Ersatz, Improbable Research staff Although people say that “a penny’s...  ...0-yen coin and/or a 100-yen coin can kill you, as researchers at Osaka University Medical School handled disco...  ...stem organ failure.5 Discussion My preliminary research indicat...

(Image credit: Flicker user stephanie vacher) by...  ...Flicker user stephanie vacher) by Marc Abrahams, Improbable Research staff The Ham Sandwich Theorem has been a trea...  ...ry, vol. 11, no. 1, December 1994, pp. 433–52. Research then moved on to exotic, distantly-related questi...  ...2010 were anni...

by Jennifer A. Zimmerman Psychology Department Ma...  ...enomenal implications for family planning. Prior research strongly suggests that sexual intercourse is a ca...  ...from the March-April 2002 issue of the Annals of Improbable Research . You can download or purchase back issues of the...  ...or someone as...

Figure 1A Sam Shuster Emeritus Professor, Uni...  ...es its stone version go missing? As a clinical researcher , I’ve spent a life wondering, a habit too stron...  ...mation from a  different source— what clinical researchers and would-be scientists call controls, in the bel...  ...o have been somet...