[mini-AIR] mini-AIR July: Puff, puffing, puff ability; and Ig Nobel tix on sale
Marc Abrahams
marc at improbable.com
Mon Jul 7 16:05:12 EDT 2014
mini-Annals of Improbable Research ("mini-AIR")
July 2014, issue number 2014-07. ISSN 1076-500X.
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The monthly wee little tiny mini update/alert from Improbable Research
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2014-07-01 TABLE OF CONTENTS
2014-07-02 Imminent Events
2014-07-03 In the Magazine: Centrifugal Research is Going Round
2014-07-04 RESEARCH SPOTLIGHT: Continuous Explosion‐Puffing of Potatoes
2014-07-05 Ig Nobel Ceremony Tickets
2014-07-06 The Puffable Half Product Process Limerick Competition
2014-07-07 Sloth Moth Poet
2014-07-08 MORE IMPROBABLE: Cadavers, Codpieces, and McDoom, and McDoom
2014-07-09 MAY WE RECOMMEND: Puffability Promotes Public Health
2014-07-10 Improbable Research Events
2014-07-11 — How to Get the Magazine (*)
2014-07-12 — Our Address (*)
2014-07-13 — Please Forward/Post This Issue! (*)
2014-07-14 — How to start or stop receiving this newsletter (*)
Items marked (*) are reprinted in every issue.
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2014-07-02 Imminent Events
· Ig Nobel Ceremony TICKETS GO ON SALE — Jul 8
· Readercon, Burlington, MA, USA — Jul 10-13
Full events schedule at <http://goo.gl/tzwJt>
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2014-07-03 In the Magazine: Centrifugal Research is Going Round
The special Centrifugal Research issue (vol. 20, no. 3) of the Annals of Improbable Research has flown forth from the printer. The table of contents and a few articles will soon be (or, depending on when you read this, already are) online at <http://www.improbable.com/magazine>.
Download a FREE E-BOOK ISSUE <http://goo.gl/BMzMw>
Links to all issues: <http://www.improbable.com/magazine>
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2014-07-04 RESEARCH SPOTLIGHT: Continuous Explosion‐Puffing of Potatoes
This month the focus arrives at:
"Continuous Explosion‐Puffing of Potatoes," J.F. Sullivan, R.P. Konstance, N.C. Aceto, W.K. Heiland, and J.C. Craig, Journal of Food Science, vol. 42, no. 6, 1977, pp. 1462-1463. <http://goo.gl/J2wDqh>
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2014-07-05 Ig Nobel Ceremony Tickets
Tickets for the Twenty-Fourth 1st Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony will go on sale TUESDAY, JULY 8, 2014, at noon (US eastern time). We expect (based on experience) the tickets will get snapped up quickly.
TICKETS
The Harvard Box Office handles all ticket sales. The physical ticket office, in Holyoke Center, is open most days noon to 6 pm.
Online: <https://www.boxoffice.harvard.edu>
Phone: (+1) 617-496-2222.
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Tickets: $75 / $65 / $55 / $35
Student tickets: $70 / $60 / $50 / $30
Ig Glorious tickets: $150. We fund the ceremony (theater rental, and half a zillion other expenses) mainly through ticket revenues. This year we are offering a few special "Ig Glorious" tickets, for persons who want to be specially supportive. Details at <http://www.improbable.com/2014/07/03/ig-nobel-tickets-go-on-sale-tuesday-july-8/>
THE CEREMONY
This year's theme: FOOD.
WHERE: Sanders Theatre, Harvard University
WHEN: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2014, 6:00 pm.
Ceremony details: <http://improbable.com/ig/2014/>
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2014-07-06 The Puffable Half Product Process Limerick Competition
Puffable half products inspire this month's limerick competition. To enter, compose an original limerick that clarifies the nature of this invention:
"Process for Making a Puffable Half Product," US patent #3150978, granted to Wayne W. Campfield on September 29, 1964.
LINK: <http://goo.gl/2cS7ou>
Submit your perfectly formed limerick to:
PUFFABLE HALF PRODUCT PROCESS LIMERICK COMPETITION
c/o <MARC aaattt IMPROBABLE dddooottt COM>
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2014-07-07 Sloth Moth Poet
The judges have chosen a winner for last month's Sloth Moth Limerick Competition, which asked for a limerick to honor this study:
"Cryptoses choloepi: a coprophagous moth that lives on a sloth," Jeffrey K. Waage and G. Gene Montgomery, Science, vol. 193, no. 4248, 1976, pp. 157-158. <http://goo.gl/J6ABeQ> The authors report:
The winner is INVESTIGATOR MIKE McKINLAY, who wrote this listhpy rhyme:
The larvae of a thertain moth
Livth in the dung of the thloth.
The animal detheendth,
To its nature attendth,
And the hatchthlingth return alofth.
Runner-up is INVESTIGATOR GAILE OARE, who writes:
A slothenly home unshaven,
Claims the three-toed creature maven,
Hosts moths in its halls
Until nature calls
For lower rent district haven
And here is the offering from LIMERICK LAUREATE MARTIN EIGER:
Human struggle and conflict are rife.
Sloth moths larvae, though, bear no such strife.
When environments meet
All your needs, life is sweet.
They enjoy the coprophagous life.
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2014-07-08 MORE IMPROBABLE: Cadavers, Codpieces, and McDoom, and McDoom
Recent improbable bits you maybe missed:
IMPROBABLE BLOG:
· "Jiggling and scanning the brains of cadavers" <http://goo.gl/oVxFI9>
· "Dr. Reed's medical codpiece theory" <http://goo.gl/rUhHzd>
· "O.S. McDoom the prophet; and McDoom's shoe deodorant insert" <http://goo.gl/GU4oxO>
...and MORE, MORe, MOre, More, more at <http://improbable.com>
twitter: @ImprobResearch, @MarcAbrahams, #IgNobel
facebook: <http://www.facebook.com/improbableresearch>
books: <http://goo.gl/rHMb3t>
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2014-07-09 MAY WE RECOMMEND: Puffability Promotes Public Health
"Puffability People: A New Way To Promote Health," Andrew G. Dunn and Pauline Dunn, British Medical Journal (Clinical Research Edition), vol. 287, no. 6397, October 1, 1983, pp. 960-962. <http://goo.gl/7x7Si2>
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2014-07-10 Improbable Research Events
For details and additional events, see
<http://improbable.com/improbable-research-shows/complete-schedule>
Ig Nobel TICKETS go on sale — Jul 8, 2014
Readercon, Burlington, MA, USA — Jul 10-13
NEW BOOK — Publication day USA — Aug 12
Harvard Book Store, Cambridge, MA, USA — Sep 5
TEDMED, Washington, DC, USA — Sep 10-12
Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony — Sep 18
Ig Informal Lectures — Sep 20
Book Tour (NY, DC, elsewhere) — Late Sept/Oct
Chile — Oct 20-22, 2014
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2014-07-12 — Our Address (*)
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