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Marc Abrahams


Born
Newburyport, The United States
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Marc Abrahams writes the 'Improbable Research' column for the Guardian and is the author of 'This Is Improbable'. He is the founding editor of the science humour magazine Annals of Improbable Research and founder of the Ig Nobel Prizes, which are presented at Harvard University each year. Abrahams and the Ig have been covered by the BBC, New Scientist, Daily Mail, Times, and numerous other outlets internationally. He lives in Massachusetts. ...more

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The Twelve-Gorilla Nettle Experiment

Some humans eat nettles. So do some gorillas. This report looks at twelve gorillas and a small portion of their gastronomic experience with nettles: “An experimental study of nettle feeding in captive gorillas,” Claudio Tennie, Daniela Hedwig, Josep Call, and Michael Tomasello, American Journal of Primatology: Official Journal of the American Society of Primatologists, vol. […]
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Average rating: 3.43 · 773 ratings · 108 reviews · 41 distinct works • Similar authors
The Ig Nobel Prizes
3.49 avg rating — 274 ratings — published 2002 — 20 editions
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This Is Improbable: Cheese ...
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This is Improbable Too - Sy...
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The Ig Nobel Prizes 2: An A...
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The Best of Annals of Impro...
3.76 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 1997 — 5 editions
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Sex As a Heap of Malfunctio...
3.84 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1993
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The Man Who Tried to Clone ...
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Annals of Improbable Resear...
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