The Ig Nobel prizes are out! The ones that stand out to me are

Peace prize: “The governments of India and Pakistan, for having their diplomats surreptitiously ring each other’s doorbells in the middle of the night, and then run away before anyone had a chance to answer the door.”

Management prize: to “five professional hitmen in Guangxi, China, who managed a contract for a hit job (a murder performed for money) in the following way: After accepting payment to perform the murder, Xi Guang-An then instead subcontracted the task to Mo Tian-Xiang, who then instead subcontracted the task to Yang Kang-Sheng, who then instead subcontracted the task to Yang Guang-Sheng, who then instead subcontracted the task to Ling Xian-Si, with each subsequently enlisted hitman receiving a smaller percentage of the fee, and nobody actually performing a murder.”

The complete recipe in action, by the Auralnauts.

Life imitating art, of the post-apocalyptic genre.

And some photos that could be used for the associated movie poster.

Here is a video of someone who explored the behaviour of garden squirrels through engineering. You are sure to learn something.

Here is a nice quiz asking whether a name refers to an antidepressant drug, or is found in Tolkien. Not as easy as it sounds.

Solitter ai is a service that allows to separate the voice and the instruments from a song. It is done through AI, and is magical.

I was interested in the music, for karaoke reasons, but a friend mentioned the potential to make Frankenstein songs with the extracted voices, which is apparently a favourite activity among DJs.