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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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LOOKING BACK: Official kudos for then-new Ig Nobel Prize winners

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By Marc Abrahams Verified
| Annals of Improbable Research
If you’d like some warm nostalgia, look back to the year before the Covid pandemic arrived. Here are some accolades from home institutions of some of the 2019 Ig Nobel Prize winners. Centre for Quantum Technologies [Singapore]: Cockroaches win award for quantum researchers The application of an advanced quantum technology to cockroaches has won an international team of researchers an Ig Nobel Prize. CQT Principal Investigator Rainer Dumke is among the winners announced on 12 September.
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From Your Brain, Please, Not Your Bot

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By Marc Abrahams Verified
| Annals of Improbable Research
If you want to submit an article for possible publication in the magazine, write it using only the brain inside your head. Please do NOT send us anything ‘written’ with or by an AI program. Recently we have been receiving a wave of articles written by or with ChatGPT, Claude, or some other large language model computer program. None of those are much funny. Most seem to be some simple notion set into a framework of words that *look like* articles generally look.
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July issue of the newsletter (mini-AIR), with Head Carrying Capacity Stuff

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By Marc Abrahams Verified
| Annals of Improbable Research
The July 2026 issue of mini-AIR, our teeny tiny free little e-newsletter of overflow detritus that did not fit in the magazine (Annals of Improbable Research), has just gone out. The issue contains (among other stuff) info about research on the carrying capacity of heads. It includes a quick look at the study “Why do Indonesian Ambrosia Beetles Carry Eggs on Their Heads?”, and glimpses of other things wondrous or mundane.
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