Of course, Improbable Research would feature this. 🙂

"Yuri Nakahashi, a student at Hosei University, Japan, wrote a thesis about sleeping with a cat night after night in locations chosen by the cat."

https://improbable.com/2022/03/19/sleeping-next-to-the-cat-wherever-the-cat-chooses-to-sleep/

#ImprobableResearch #Cats

Not satire. This is from Improbable Research.

"“DentalSlim Diet Control is an intra-oral device fitted by a dental professional to the upper and lower back teeth. It uses magnetic devices with unique custom-manufactured locking bolts. It allows the wearer to open their mouths only about 2mm, restricting them to a liquid diet, but it allows free speech and doesn’t restrict breathing.”"

https://www.improbable.com/2021/06/28/jaw-locking-tooth-locks-as-a-weight-loss-panacea/

#ImprobableResearch #Diets

Good to know. 🙂

"“Beer Mats Make Bad Frisbees,” Johann Ostmeyer, Christoph Schürmann, Carsten Urbach, arXiv 2106.08238, 2021. (Thanks to Mason Porter for bringing this to our attention.)"

https://www.improbable.com/2021/06/15/do-beer-mats-make-bad-frisbees/

#Research #Humour #ImprobableResearch #BeerMats #Frisbees

This is real improbable research. 😃

"Catching up with recent research, possibly the only research, on using ketchup to polish glass: A new study takes the process to new levels of precision."

https://www.improbable.com/2020/07/24/high-precision-glass-polishing-with-ketchup/

#Science #Research #Glass #Polishing #Materials #ImprobableResearch

Okay. Cockroach oil is out. :-) Improbable Research on research looking at cooking oil produced by "yellow mealworms (Tenebrio molitor), lesser mealworms (Alphitobius diaperinus), house crickets (Acheta domesticus) and Dubia cockroaches (Blaptica dubia)."

#Research #ImprobableResearch #Cooking #Food

https://www.improbable.com/2019/07/04/cockroach-oil-found-to-be-sub-optimal-for-cooking-new-study/

The usual pot of funny but serious research featured in this year's Ig Nobel Prize winners:
- getting rid of kidney stones by riding roller coasters
- human flesh isn't as nutritious as other flesh
- human saliva is a good cleaning agent for some dirty surfaces
:-)

#Research #Funny #IgNobel #Prizes #Science #ImprobableResearch

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-45513012