In 1992, researcher Sir Mix-a-Lot released the results of his examination of the human female figure in a study titled "Baby Got Back." Sir Mix-a-Lot concluded that a round and heavy female bottom was of surpreme interes...

Come see us this Saturday JULY 2! We open at 1...  ...ingdom II in Virginia harkens back to the kind of attractions that popped up on roadsides between the rise of t...

[http://youtu.be/Xm-T3HCa618] (YouTube link)Last month, we posted How to Fall in Love, which described a process that tends to make people fall for each other. It consists of a series of increasingly intimate questions f...

by Alice Shirrell Kaswell, Improbable Research staff (Image credit: Flickr user Genna G) Wildman on Body Part Preferences (1963) “The Relationship Between Knee and Arm Joints on Human Figure Drawings and Paranoid...

Savoring the colorful research of an under-publicized researcher compiled by Alice Shirrell Kaswell and Stephen Drew This issue’s under-publicized scientist is Nicolas Guéguen, who finds significance, or at least...

There have been many studies about what body part attracts the opposite sex, but few studies that compare the importance of body parts to each other. A new study suggests that people assign more importance to faces than...

Here's another case of science proving what we all knew in the back of our minds. Men pretty much agree on what makes a woman attractive, while women have their own ideas about what is attractive in men. A survey led by...