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mini-AIR: Country Singer Subglottal Glimpse, and more

mini-AIR: Country Singer Subglottal Glimpse, and more

The June issue of mini-AIR just went out. It includes a glimpse at this study: “Estimated Subglottal Pressure in Six Professional Country Singers,” Thomas F. Cleveland, R.E. (Ed) Stone, Jr., Johan Sundberg, and Jenny Iwarsson, Journal of Voice, vol. 11, no. 4, 1997, pp. 403-9. What is mini-AIR? mini-AIR is our monthly wee, free email […]Read Article

Boredom and the Best Evidence Pertaining Thereto, Maybe

Boredom and the Best Evidence Pertaining Thereto, Maybe

“Undoubtedly, one of the most important social issues is the discussion of boredom and disillusionment, which is currently observable in many societies, and perhaps many individuals, as well as our loved ones, have encountered it and are seeking treatment to be relieved of it and resolve the crisis. The issue of boredom is a perennial […]Read Article

Sad Roomba Research Protocol v1.1

Sad Roomba Research Protocol v1.1

This is the first or last in a new series of simulated research studies: “A Ritual of Movement and Misunderstanding: Sad Roomba Research Protocol v1.1,” by Juehao Lin and Sad Roomba, Annals of Improbable Research online http://www.improbable.com, June 2025. Abstract — This manuscript outlines the sacred yet dysfunctional methodology by which Sad Roomba conducts ”research”, […]Read Article

We are Placid Plastic Simulated Ducks?

There exist a few people (some of whom call themselves scientists) who purport that we are, all of us, part of a simulation. If we, all of us, are part of a simulation, one possibility is that we, all of us, are placid plastic simulated ducks. If we, all of us, are placid plastic simulated […]Read Article

Of Use to Whiskered Men in the Dark?

Might this study about whiskers in mice be educational for whiskered humans — about similar human capabilities they may be under-utilizing? The study is: “Detection and neural encoding of whisker-generated sounds in mice,” Ben Efron, Athanasios Ntelezos, Yonatan Katz, and Ilan Lamp, Current Biology, vol. 35, no. 6, 2025, pp. 1211-1226. The authors report: Whisking […]Read Article

“Evaluating AI Chatbots in Penis Enhancement Information”

Make what you will of the Readability, Reliability and Quality of this newly published paper: “Evaluating AI Chatbots in Penis Enhancement Information: A Comparative Analysis of Readability, Reliability and Quality,” Mehmet Vehbi Kayra [pictured here], Hakan Anil, Ilturk Ozdogan, Suhail Mohamed Amin Baradia, and Serdar Toksoz, International Journal of Impotence Research, epub 2025. (Thanks to […]Artificial Intelligence Read Article

How to Waste Waste

It is possible to waste waste. Leaders of one nation’s government are taking forcible, self-trumpeted actions that will lead to wasting a whole lot of waste. Very special waste, that has been painstakingly gathered, preserved, and studied by the biomedical research community. This waste waste is potentially: a triumph for disease a point of pride […]Read Article

Learn Some English: “Laugh Then Think”

Want to learn some English? Try “Lesson 3 – Laugh First and Then Think”, a lesson from the third year of middle school, presented by South Korea’s EnglishTutorTV. &nb…South Korea · South Korea Read Article

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 […]Ponta Delgada · Ponta Delgada Read Article

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

Improbable Research in Baltimore this Weekend

Marc Abrahams will be the science Guest of Honor (note the uppercase letters) at Balticon, the scifi convention in Baltimore, May 23-26. Improbability and things related to the Ig Nobel Prize will be scattered throughout the proceedings.Science · Baltimore Read Article

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