[mini-AIR] mini-AIR: Rock and Rolls and Roller (and Manchester, UK)

Marc Abrahams marc at improbable.com
Mon Jul 18 11:16:07 EDT 2016 

mini-Annals of Improbable Research ("mini-AIR")
July 2016, issue number 2016-07. ISSN 1076-500X.
----------
	Research that makes people LAUGH, then THINK.
	A tiny supplement to the magazine Annals of Improbable Research.
	Archive at <http://improbable.com/airchives/miniair>
—————————

01 TABLE OF CONTENTS

02 Imminent Events:  Reykjavik and Manchester
03 The Magazine Itself: Kissing, Time & Boredom
04 SPOTLIGHT: Rock and Rolls on Retention
05 Rock and Roller on Drugs Limerick Contest
06 Poultry Grit Poet
07 MORE IMPROBABLE: Pokémon Phylogeny, Hot Rod Magazines, Hair Clubbers
08 MAY WE RECOMMEND: Rock and Rolls, Corrected
09 Improbable Research Events
10 — The Magazine (AIR) — How to Subscribe; How to Get Back Issues (*)
11 — Our Address (*)
12 — Please Forward/Post This Issue! (*)
13 — How to start or stop receiving mini-AIR (*)

	Items marked (*) are reprinted in every issue.

—————————
02 Imminent Events:  Reykjavik and Manchester

Reykjavik, Iceland					— Jul 22
Blue Dot Festival, Jodrell Bank, UK	— Jul 23
Science in the City, Manchester, UK	— Jul 24
ESOF, Manchester, UK				— Jul 25

DETAILS at
<http://improbable.com/improbable-research-shows/complete-schedule>


—————————
03 The Magazine Itself: Kissing After Time & Boredom

The special KISSING issue (volume 22, number 4) of the magazine will appear any day now. The special TIME & BOREDOM issue (volume 22, number 3) is already available.

If you're a subscriber, you should have received email notifying how to download your copy of the issue. 

	SUBSCRIPTIONS & SINGLE ISSUES: <https://gumroad.com/improbable>

	Tables of Contents: <http://www.improbable.com/magazine/>


—————————
04 SPOTLIGHT: Rock and Rolls on Retention

This month's research spotlight illuminates the work of Rock, and of Rolls:

"Retention rates and weight loss in a commercial weight loss program," C.L. Rock, B.J. Rolls, et al., International Journal of Obesity, vol. 31, no. 2, 2007, pp. 292-298. <https://is.gd/m2XUM8> The authors, at the Cooper Insittute, Dallas, Texas, report:

"Objective: To evaluate and describe retention rates and weight loss in clients participating in a commercial weight loss program.
Conclusion: Weight loss was greater among clients who were retained in the program longer."


—————————
05 Rock and Roller on Drugs Limerick Contest

This month's challenge: Devise a limerick elucidating this study:

"Vancomycin and The Red-Man Syndrome: Pharmacodynamics of Histamine Release," David T. Rock, Ken Roller, et al., Journal of Infectious Diseases, vol. 157, no. 3, 1988, pp. 502-507. <https://is.gd/TG2sfU> The authors are at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Submit your perfectly formed, delightfully enlightening limerick to:

	ROCK AND ROLLER ON DRUGS LIMERICK COMPETITION
	c/o <MARC aaattt IMPROBABLE dddooottt COM>


—————————
06 Poultry Grit Poet

The judges have chosen a winner in last month's Poultry Grit Limerick Competition, which asked for a limerick to honor this study:

"Miscellaneous studies on poultry grit," Roy Harrison Waite, Miscellaneous Studies on Poultry Grit, 1935, pp. 313-335. <https://is.gd/L6DB1a> The authors report:

The winner is INVESTIGATOR BOB DILLON, who wrote:

Digestion in chicks is the view
Of this study that seems to be new.
  It seems that grit wrecks it —
  Kind of like Brexit
Has done to the former EU.

Here's the outpouring by our LIMERICK LAUREATE, MARTIN EIGER:

Oyster shell's good, but terraneous
Limestone has less that's extraneous.
  There's crystallized bone
  In a class all its own,
We learn from results miscellaneous.


—————————
07 MORE IMPROBABLE: Pokémon Phylogeny, Hot Rod Magazines, Hair Clubbers

Recent improbable research bits you may have missed...

The podcast:

	LISTEN / DOWNLOAD: <http://goo.gl/sxh7DX>

	#71 Boring Machines
	#72 Hot Rod Magazines — A Harmless Diversion for Teens?
	#73 Do Cats Occasionally Pay Attention to Their Owners?

The blog <http://www.improbable.com/>:

<> A Phylogeny and Evolutionary History of the Pokémon
<> Evaporation of a Drop of Ouzo
<> Gold-digging Ants – An(other) Explanation
	...and lots more

Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists, etc (LFHCfS) new members:
<> Mary Glessner
<> Katy Croff Bell
 <http://www.improbable.com/category/lfhcfs-hair-club/>:

More, at 
	[twitter]	@ImprobResearch, @MarcAbrahams, #IgNobel
	[facebook]	<http://www.facebook.com/improbableresearch>


—————————
08 MAY WE RECOMMEND: Rock and Rolls, Corrected

"Retention rates and weight loss in a commercial weight loss program," C.L. Rock, B.J. Rolls, et al., International Journal of Obesity, ERRATUM: 2007 Feb., v. 31, no. 2, p. 394. <https://is.gd/2TwILY>


—————————
09 Improbable Research Events

For details and additional events, see
<http://improbable.com/improbable-research-shows/complete-schedule>

Reykjavik, Iceland				— Jul 22, 2016
Blue Dot Festival, UK			— Jul 23, 2016
Science in the City, Manchester, UK — Jul 24, 2016
ESOF, Manchester, UK			— Jul 25, 2016
Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony		— Sep 22, 2016
Ig Informal Lectures			— Sep 24, 2016
AAAS Annual Meeting, Boston	— Feb 18, 2017
Ig Nobel EuroTour				— Mar 2017
Sarnoff Cardiovascular Research Annual Meeting
							— Apr 27, 2017

—————————
—————————
10 — The Magazine (AIR) — How to Subscribe; How to Get Back Issues (*)

The Annals of Improbable Research is a 6-issues-per-year magazine, published in PDF form. It's packed with research that makes people laugh, then think. (mini-AIR, the thing you are reading at this moment, is but a tiny, free-floating appendix to AIR.)

	<http://www.improbable.com/magazine/>
	SUBSCRIPTIONS	(just $25) 
	BACK-ISSUES 	(just $5 each)


—————————
11 — Our Address (*)

Annals of Improbable Research (AIR)
PO Box 380853, Cambridge, MA 02238 USA
(+1) 617-491-4437

EDITORIAL: <MARC aaattt IMPROBABLE dddooottt COM>
SUBSCRIPTIONS: <subscriptions AT improbable.com>
Web Site and blog: <http://www.improbable.com>
Twitter: @ImprobResearch


—————————
12 — Please Forward/Post This Issue! (*)

Please distribute copies of mini-AIR (or excerpts!) wherever appropriate. The only limitations are: A) Please indicate that the material comes from mini-AIR. B) You may NOT distribute mini-AIR for commercial purposes.

	------------- mini-AIRheads -------------
EDITOR: Marc Abrahams
CO-CONSPIRATORS: Kees Moeliker, Alice Shirrell Kaswell, Gary Dryfoos, Ernest Ersatz, Stephen Drew
PROOFREADER: Ambient Happenstance
AUTHORITY FIGURES: Nobel Laureates Dudley Herschbach, Sheldon Glashow, Richard Roberts

Key words: improbable research, science humor, Ig Nobel, AIR, the
(c) copyright 2016, Annals of Improbable Research


—————————
13 — How to start or stop receiving mini-AIR (*)

Mini-AIR is a (free!) tiny monthly *supplement* 
to the big, bold six-times-a-year magazine AIR.
   ...................................................
   To subscribe or unsubscribe to mini-AIR, please visit
   <http://five.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/mini-air>
   ...................................................
—————————

More information about the mini-AIR mailing list