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A Recast of ‘Improbable Research’

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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Recastable Episodes (109)

1. Episode 200: "Disgusting Sounds?" Dec. 25, 2019
2. Episode 201: "Crunchiness Loss" Jan. 8, 2020
3. Episode 202: "Sneezing and a Full Stomach" Jan. 22, 2020
4. Episode 203: "Who Can Touch Whom" Feb. 5, 2020
5. Episode 204: "The Longest Oath" Feb. 19, 2020
6. Episode 205: "Color Preferences in the Insane" March 4, 2020
7. Episode 206: "Flatulence in Dogs" March 18, 2020
8. Episode 207: "The Psychoanalysts's Nose" April 1, 2020
9. Pocket-Sized: “Cocker’s Arithmetick” April 12, 2020
10. Episode 208: "Repetitive Physics of 'OM'" April 15, 2020
11. Pocket-Sized: "Food Allergies & Kissing" April 18, 2020
12. Pocket-Sized: “Dogs’ Favorite Garbage” April 22, 2020
13. Pocket-Sized: “Mask Wiggling” April 25, 2020
14. Episode 209: "Words for Food in Your Mouth" April 29, 2020
15. Pocket-Sized: "Creepiness" May 2, 2020
16. Pocket-Sized: "Hot Sauce Aggression" May 6, 2020
17. Pocket-Sized: "Bereitschaftspotential" May 9, 2020
18. Episode 210: “Famous Monks with Bad Breath” May 13, 2020
19. Pocket-Sized: "Horse Calculus" May 16, 2020
20. Pocket-Sized: "Barefoot Running" May 20, 2020
21. Pocket-Sized: "Hot Potato Voice" May 23, 2020
22. Episode 211: “Richard Wassersug” May 27, 2020
23. Pocket-Sized: "Judging Aggressive Roaring" May 30, 2020
24. Pocket-Sized: "Monkeys and College Students" June 3, 2020
25. Pocket-Sized: "Death to Improve Basketball" June 6, 2020
26. Episode 212: “Kansas Is Flatter Than a Pancake” June 10, 2020
27. Pocket-Sized: "Just A Sigh" June 13, 2020
28. Pocket-Sized: "Scary Masks in Zoos" June 17, 2020
29. Pocket-Sized: "Apewoman Siren" June 20, 2020
30. Episode 213: “The 29th 1st Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony” June 24, 2020
31. Pocket-Sized: "Normally Chasing Their Tails" June 27, 2020
32. Pocket-Sized: "Centrifugal Chicken Sh*t" July 1, 2020
33. Pocket-Sized: "Hand Clap Shape-sounds" July 4, 2020
34. Pocket-Sized: "Spin-Stretched Ant Neck" July 8, 2020
35. Pocket-Sized: "Rain Run Walk" July 11, 2020
36. Pocket-Sized: “Ice Cream & Term Paper Doug” July 15, 2020
37. Pocket-Sized: “Frozen Shirt of a Stranger” July 18, 2020
38. Pocket-Sized: "Surgery Grapefruit" July 22, 2020
39. Pocket-Sized: “German Sense of Humor” July 25, 2020
40. Pocket-Sized: "Swimming in Fat Metaphors" July 29, 2020
41. Pocket-Sized: “Happiness Equation” Aug. 1, 2020
42. Pocket-Sized: "Ruck in a Rug" Aug. 5, 2020
43. Pocket-Sized: “Abnormal Blinking” Aug. 8, 2020
44. Pocket-Sized: "Microwave Oven Astronomer" Aug. 12, 2020
45. Pocket-Sized: "Another Look at Who Can Touch Whom" Aug. 15, 2020
46. Pocket-Sized: "Ice Cream & Dr. Land" Aug. 19, 2020
47. Pocket-Sized: "Look Into Each Other's Eyes" Sept. 13, 2020
48. Pocket-Sized: "Ice Cream & Human Flight" Sept. 20, 2020
49. Pocket-Sized: "What Is Stupid" Sept. 27, 2020
50. Pocket-Sized: "Ice Cream & Intense Scholars" Oct. 4, 2020
51. Pocket-Sized: "Chernoff Faces" Oct. 11, 2020
52. Pocket-Sized: "Ice Cream & Sluggo" Oct. 18, 2020
53. Pocket-Sized: “The A-through-L of Social Dilemmas” Oct. 25, 2020
54. Pocket-Sized: “Automatically Recognize Boredom” Nov. 1, 2020
55. Pocket-Sized: “Drunk German Speech” Nov. 8, 2020
56. Pocket-Sized: “Hot Rod Magazines - A Harmless Diversion?” Nov. 15, 2020
57. Pocket-Sized: "Leaping Fish Injuries" Nov. 22, 2020
58. Episode #1044: "Boring Machines" Nov. 29, 2020
59. Episode #1045: “Do Cats Sometimes Pay Some Attention to Their Owners?” Dec. 6, 2020
60. Episode #1046: “Standardized Food Glops” Dec. 13, 2020
61. Episode #1047: “Garlic — Sensory Pleasure or Social Nuisance?” Dec. 20, 2020
62. Episode #1048: “Stress Analysis of a Strapless Dress” Dec. 27, 2020
63. Episode #1049 “The M-through-Z of Social Dilemmas” Jan. 3, 2021
64. Episode #1050: “Bottle-Cork in Your Eye” Jan. 10, 2021
65. Episode #1051: “Did His Orgasm Lead to Blindness” Jan. 17, 2021
66. Episode #1052: “Do Frogs in Helium Get Squeaky Voices?” Jan. 24, 2021
67. Episode #1053: “Does One Armpit Smell Like the Other?” Jan. 31, 2021
68. Episode #1054: “Effect of Eating Garlic on Armpit Odor” Feb. 7, 2021
69. Episode #1055: “The Best Life Opera (Act 1)” Feb. 14, 2021
70. Episode #1056: “Egg in Your Eye” Feb. 21, 2021
71. Episode #1057: “Fifty Shades, by Gray” Feb. 28, 2021
72. Episode #1058: “How Kids Learn to Say ‘Trick or Treat’” March 7, 2021
73. Episode #1059: “The Best Life Opera (Act 2)” March 14, 2021
74. Episode #1060: “How Much Saliva Does a Five-Year-Old Produce?” March 21, 2021
75. Episode #1061: “Jean Berko Gleason’s Disgusting Word List” March 28, 2021
76. Episode #1062: “Happiness from Painful Insect Stings” April 4, 2021
77. Episode #1063: “And Now, a Needle in the Rectum” April 11, 2021
78. Episode #1064: “The Best Life Opera (Act 3)” April 18, 2021
79. Episode #1065: “The Physics of Skulking and Falling Cats” April 25, 2021
80. Episode #1066: “Arachnophobia in Bug Scientists” May 2, 2021
81. Episode #1067: “Using Voodoo Dolls to Measure Aggression in Married Couples” May 9, 2021
82. Episode #1068: “Eyebrows of Narcissists” May 16, 2021
83. Episode #1069: “What Sort of Person is Named Rupzóiyat” May 23, 2021
84. Episode #1070: “Kissing and Income Inequality” May 30, 2021
85. Episode #1071: “Umbrella Progress on a Crowded Sidewalk” June 6, 2021
86. Episode #1072: “The Misery of Misophonia” June 13, 2021
87. Episode 1073: “Smelly People in the Office” June 20, 2021
88. Episode #1074: “Vibrate That Earthworm” June 27, 2021
89. Episode #1075: “The Rheology of Cats” July 4, 2021
90. Episode #1076: "Adventure of the Random Million Digits" July 11, 2021
91. Episode #1077: "Danger Assessment of Holy Water" July 25, 2021
92. Episode #1078: “Are People Happier on Weekends?” Aug. 8, 2021
93. Episode #1079: "Cats and Appropriate Music” Aug. 22, 2021
94. Episode #1080: “Pleasurability of Scratching an Itch” Sept. 5, 2021
95. Episode #1081: “Ear Bigness Through the Years” Sept. 19, 2021
96. Episode #1082: "The Man in the Black Bag" Oct. 3, 2021
97. Episode #1083: “Faces and Smoked Ham” Oct. 17, 2021
98. Episode #1084: “Chalk and Mathematicians” Oct. 31, 2021
99. Episode #1085: "Mindful Dishwashing" Nov. 14, 2021
100. Episode #1086: “Beards and Face-Punching” Jan. 16, 2022
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