Kit Prendergast has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists™ (LFHCfS). She says: “I am Dr Kit Prendergast (aka Bee Babette), wild bee scientist. I am dedicated to using the best available science to conserve native bees. My research covers topics from urban ecology, to fire ecology, restoration, plant-pollinator interactions, science communication, taxonomy (I […]
Whether you prefer to be eaten or to eat, you can pretend to indulge your preference by doing what the people in this study did: “Impersonating Predators and Prey to Study Trophic Interactions Through Real-Life Simulations,” David Bolduc, Frédéric Dulude-de Broin, Gabriel Bergeron, Catherine Villeneuve, Matthieu Weiss-Blais, Clément Couloigner, Rachel Dubourg, Maxime Fraser-Franco, Francis Banville, […]
The March 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 info about research on the topic of “Fallacy Fallacy.” It includes the winning entry in the competition to a limerick competition to […]
Some people have strange beliefs about the ear and its malformations. If you are one of those people, and you are curious about what some people in other times and places may have believed, listen to the authors of this study: “The Ear and its Malformations: Strange Beliefs and Misconceptions,” Irene E. Gamatsi, Thomas P. […]