Marc Abrahams: This is Improbable

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Father of the IgNobel Prizes, Marc Abrahams tells tales of scientists, researchers, and other colourful individuals explaining research that will make you laugh and then think!! Why are books on ethics are more likely to get stolen? What time of month generates higher tips for Las Vegas lap dancers? What's the best way to murder tree snakes in Guam?

And what is the significance of Mr Buckley's exploding trousers? Along with more of the strangest and interesting research known to this pale blue dot.

Marc Abrahams is editor and co-founder of the science humor magazine Annals of Improbable Research (AIR). Marc is the father and master of ceremonies of the Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, honoring achievements that make people LAUGH, and then THINK. The Prizes are handed out by genuine Nobel Laureates at a gala ceremony held each autumn at Harvard University and broadcast on National Public Radio and on the Internet.

He is the author of This Is Improbable and lives in Cambridge, Mass, USA.