Research that makes people LAUGH, then THINK — research about anything and everything, from everywhere —research that's good or bad, important or trivial, valuable or worthless. Presented by Marc Abrahams, founder of the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony.
Improbable Research
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Research that makes people LAUGH, then THINK — research about anything and everything, from everywhere —research that's good or bad, important or trivial, valuable or worthless. Presented by Marc Abrahams, founder of the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony.
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May 22, 2022
Episode #1095: “Saliva and Frog Puppets”
<p>In Podcast Episode #1095, <a href="https://www.improbable.com/whatis/about-marc-abrahams/" target="_blank">Marc Abrahams</a> shows an unfamiliar research study to psycholinguist <a href="https://jeanberkogleason.com/" target="_blank">Jean Berko Gleason</a>. Dramatic readings and reactions ensue.</p> <p>Remember, our <a href="https://www.patreon.com/ImprobableResearch" target="_blank">Patreon</a> donors, on most levels, get access to each podcast episode before it is made public.</p> <p>Jean Berko Gleason encounters:</p> <ul> <li>“<a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18266805/" target="_blank">A Salivary Collection Method for Young Children</a>,” Laura K. Zimmermann, Psychophysiology, vol. 45, no. 3, May 2008, pp. 353-355.</li> </ul> <p><br></p> <p><a href="http://www.instagram.com/valleyofseth" target="_blank">Seth Gliksman</a>, Production Assistant</p>
May 8, 2022
Episode #1094: “Can You Navigate in a Crowd, While Distracted by Your Mobile Phone?”
<p>The Ig Nobel Prizes honor achievements that make people LAUGH, then THINK.</p> <p>In the Ig Informal Lectures, some days after <a href="https://improbable.com/2021-ceremony/" target="_blank">the ceremony</a>, the new <a href="https://improbable.com/2021-ceremony/winners/" target="_blank">Ig Nobel Prize winners</a> attempt to explain what they did, and why they did it. We released<a href="https://improbable.com/2021-ceremony/#lectures" target="_blank"> these lectures one at a time</a>.</p> <p>In Podcast Episode #1094, <a href="https://www.improbable.com/whatis/about-marc-abrahams/" target="_blank">Marc Abrahams</a> presents the 2021 Ig Nobel Prize for Kinetics winners Hisashi Murakami, Claudio Feliciani, Yuta Nishiyama, and Katsuhiro Nishinari. They received the prize for conducting experiments to learn why pedestrians do sometimes collide with other pedestrians.</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abe7758" target="_blank">REFERENCE:</a> “Mutual Anticipation Can Contribute to Self-Organization in Human Crowds,” Hisashi Murakami, Claudio Feliciani, Yuta Nishiyama, and Katsuhiro Nishinari, Science Advances, vol. 7, no. 12, 2021, p. eabe7758.</li> </ul> <p>The video for this lecture—graphs, charts and all—can be found online at <a href="https://improbable.com/2021/11/11/can-you-navigate-in-a-crowd-while-distracted-by-your-mobile-phone-2021-ig-informal-lecture/" target="_blank">www.IMPROBABLE.com</a>.</p> <p><br></p> <p><a href="http://www.instagram.com/valleyofseth" target="_blank">Seth Gliksman</a>, Production Assistant</p>
April 24, 2022
Episode #1093: “Why Pedestrians Do Not Constantly Collide”
<p>The Ig Nobel Prizes honor achievements that make people LAUGH, then THINK.</p> <p>In the Ig Informal Lectures, some days after <a href="https://improbable.com/2021-ceremony/" target="_blank">the ceremony</a>, the new <a href="https://improbable.com/2021-ceremony/winners/" target="_blank">Ig Nobel Prize winners</a> attempt to explain what they did, and why they did it. We released<a href="https://improbable.com/2021-ceremony/#lectures" target="_blank"> these lectures one at a time</a>.</p> <p>In Podcast Episode #1093, <a href="https://www.improbable.com/whatis/about-marc-abrahams/" target="_blank">Marc Abrahams</a> presents the 2021 Ig Nobel Prize for Physics winners Alessandro Corbetta, Jasper Meeusen, Chung-min Lee, Roberto Benzi, and Federico Toschi. They received the prize for conducting experiments to learn why pedestrians do not constantly collide with other pedestrians.</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.98.062310" target="_blank">REFERENCE:</a> “Physics-based modeling and data representation of pairwise interactions among pedestrians,” Alessandro Corbetta, Jasper A. Meeusen, Chung-min Lee, Roberto Benzi, and Federico Toschi, Physical Review E, vol. 98, no. 062310, 20188.</li> </ul> <p>The video for this lecture—graphs, charts and all—can be found online at <a href="https://improbable.com/2021/11/04/why-pedestrians-do-not-constantly-collide-2021-ig-informal-lecture/" target="_blank">www.IMPROBABLE.com</a>.</p> <p><br></p> <p><a href="http://www.instagram.com/valleyofseth" target="_blank">Seth Gliksman</a>, Production Assistant</p>
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