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editor of the Annals of Improbable Research magazine, organizer of the Ig Nobel Prizes. Also see: @ImprobResearch, mastodon: @MarcAbrahams@mstdn.science
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Insect Sex Organ Switcheroo — New Episode in NHK’s Ig Nobel Prize Winners TV Series

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By Marc Abrahams 
| Annals of Improbable Research
“Insect Sex Intersections” is a new episode (the seventh episode) in the series “Laugh Then Think: Japan’s Offbeat Science” broadcast by the Japanese TV network NHK. You can watch it online. The series looks closely and lovingly at some of Japan’s many Ig Nobel Prize winners. The producers summarize the new episode this way: “An investigation of a female insect with a penis-like sex organ earned entomologist Yoshizawa Kazunori an Ig Nobel Prize in 2017.
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Preparing for Bloodshed in Space, With Pigs

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By Marc Abrahams 
| Annals of Improbable Research
“Be Prepared!” cries the motto of several organizations. It could also be the motto of everyone connected with this study: “Extraterrestrial regolith is hemostatic and potentially suitable for hemorrhage control in space,” Nabil Ali-Mohamad, Ting-Hsuan Wang, Lih Jiin Juang, Nuoya Peng, Massimo F. Cau, Kevin Cannon, and Christian J. Kastrup, Research and Practice in Thrombosis and Haemostasis, vol. 10, no. 1, 2026.
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Ig Nobel Show in LEIDEN Thursday, June 11

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By Marc Abrahams 
| Annals of Improbable Research
Join us this Thursday afternoon in  Leiden, the Netherlands. The show features Marc Abrahams and these Ig Nobel Prize winners: Mirjam Tuk (Medicine Prize, 2011): decision making with a full and empty bladder Antoine Deblais (Chemistry Prize, 2024): using chromatography to separate drunk and sober worms Ida Sabelis (Medicine Prize, 2000): sex in an MRI scanner – imaging male and female genitals in action Kees Moeliker (Biology Prize, 2003): documenting homosexual necrophilia in the mallard duck.
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