“Ways to Use This Issue” is a featured article in the special Forensics issue (volume 27, number 2) of the Annals of Improbable Research. This article is free to download:
Here’s a shorthand version of what’s in that article:
Write a limerick about one of the cited studies….Write a long-single-sentence short story that includes the titles of every study mentioned in one of the review articles….Do dramatic readings, in person, or in live or recorded video, of little chunks from the magazine….Watch an Ig Nobel Prize winner…Go down a rabbit hole. For some item that catches your fancy…Go down a maybe-important rabbit hole…If you are a journalist, some of those rabbit holes house bunnies that can make news editors hop to attention…Start an argument about whether some particular study is good or bad, important or trivial, valuable or worthless.
Published on May 14, 2021 06:26