Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/09/improbable-research/
Tuesday 18 September 2012
Chocolate-Bunny Boxes, Yawning Tortoises and Masturbation Distractions: 10 WTF Research Highlights
Even as a boy, Marc Abrahams had a calling: to collect funny, unexpected and generally weird examples of science. Now he's the editor of the Annals of Improbable Research, the world's preeminent journal of strange scientific findings and sponsor of the infamous Ig Nobel Prizes. Recipients have studied such phenomena as contagious yawning in turtles, sword-swallowing's side effects and the results of cracking knuckles in one hand but not the other for 50 years. Wired talks to Abrahams about his some of his favorite science.
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