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Improbable Research
By Marc AbrahamsScience
Improbable Research episodes
- Episode #1055: “The Best Life Opera (Act 1)”
In Podcast Episode #1055, Marc Abrahams presents the first act of “The Best Life”, a mini-opera which debuted in 2015 at the 25th First Annual Ig Nobel Ceremony.
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Seth Gliksman, Production Assistant
10 min - Episode #1054: “Effect of Eating Garlic on Armpit Odor”
In Podcast Episode #1054, Marc Abrahams shows an unfamiliar research study to psycholinguist Jean Berko Gleason. Dramatic readings and reactions ensue.
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Seth Gliksman, Production Assistant
13 min - Episode #1053: “Does One Armpit Smell Like the Other?”
In Podcast Episode #1053, Marc Abrahams shows an unfamiliar research study to synthetic biologist Christina Agapakis. Dramatic readings and reactions ensue.
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Seth Gliksman, Production Assistant
14 min - Episode #1052: “Do Frogs in Helium Get Squeaky Voices?”
In Podcast Episode #1052, Marc Abrahams shows an unfamiliar research study to developmental biologist Dany Adams. Dramatic readings and reactions ensue.
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Seth Gliksman, Production Assistant
11 min - Episode #1051: “Did His Orgasm Lead to Blindness”
In Podcast Episode #1051, Marc Abrahams shows an unfamiliar research study to statistical geneticist Chris Cotsapas. Dramatic readings and reactions ensue.
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Seth Gliksman, Production Assistant
15 min - Episode #1050: “Bottle-Cork in Your Eye”
In Podcast Episode #1050, Marc Abrahams shows an unfamiliar research study to physicist Melissa Franklin. Dramatic readings and reactions ensue.
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Seth Gliksman, Production Assistant
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10 min - Episode #1049 “The M-through-Z of Social Dilemmas”
In episode #1049, Robin Abrahams explores some of the engineering in a classic research study Dramatic readings and reactions ensue.
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Seth Gliksman, Production Assistant
6 min - Episode #1048: “Stress Analysis of a Strapless Dress”
In episode #1048, Marc Abrahams and Nicole Sharp analyze the engineering and the art of “Stress Analysis of a Strapless Evening Dress". Dramatic readings and reactions ensue.
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Seth Gliksman, Production Assistant
16 min - Episode #1047: “Garlic — Sensory Pleasure or Social Nuisance?”
In Episode #1047, Marc Abrahams shows an unfamiliar research study to Chris Cotsapas. Dramatic readings and reactions ensue.
The research mentioned in this episode is featured in the special Smelly issue (Vol. 22, #2) of the Annals of Improbable Research Magazine.
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Seth Gliksman, Production Assistant
12 min - Episode #1046: “Standardized Food Glops”
In episode #1046, Marc Abrahams shows some unfamiliar research studies to Nicole Sharp. Dramatic readings and reactions ensue.
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Seth Gliksman, Production Assistant
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About Improbable Research
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Research that makes people LAUGH, then THINK — research about anything and everything, from everywhere —research that's good or bad, important or trivial, valuable or worthless. Presented by Marc…
Abrahams, founder of the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony.
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