This Is Improbable Too, in the Boston Globe

Kate Tuttle wrote a nice article on “the story behind the new book” — This Is Improbable Too — in today’s Boston Globe. Tuttle mentions that I (the author of the book), have been at this kind of thing for a while:

Abrahams has been publishing his oddball discoveries for a quarter-century now, but his passion is nearly lifelong. “I discovered newspapers when I was really small,” he says. His hometown paper would fill extra column space with “oddball news — one I remember vividly was ‘Man Flushes Toilet, House Explodes’ — I used to cut them out and paste them into a scrapbook.” …

The book has gotten nice reviews in USA Today, and in the Wall Street Journal. And I managed, without trying or wanting to, to shock Bob Edwards near the end of our interview on The Bob Edwards show.

This Friday, September 5, I and several members of the Ig Nobel gang (Robin Abrahams, Gary Dryfoos, Melissa Franklin, Corky White) will do brief dramatic readings from studies that I wrote about in the book. That happens at Harvard Book Store, in Cambridge at 7 p.m. Come join us!

You can get the book from Harvard Bookstore, as well as at most other good bookstores, and also from Amazon and the other mysterious online booksellers.