Improbable Research's 'The Coffin Blew Up' Tour 2013

From Harvard's own Improbable Research:

The Coffin Blew Up (and maybe something about why it did)

This newspaper report gives public details about an embarrassing explosion:
“The Coffin Blew Up“, The Meridan [Missouri, USA] Daily Republican, July 21, 1890. (Thanks to investigator Erwin Kompanje for bringing this to our attention.) Here is a reproduction of the entire article:


BONUS (mostly unrelated): The 2012 Ig Nobel Prize for medicine honored the efforts of two doctors to keep modern colonoscopy patients from exploding. 

And from this month's  mini-Annals of Improbable Research ("mini-AIR"):

2013-03-01 TABLE OF CONTENTS

2013-03-02 Imminent Events

2013-03-03 In the Magazine: Sloths & Vampires

2013-03-04 RESEARCH SPOTLIGHT: Music for Underwater Listeners

2013-03-05 Ig Nobel Events in The UK, US, and Switzerland

2013-03-06 Bass-Described Singing Fish Limerick Competition

2013-03-07 Gebrauchsmusterschrift Poet

2013-03-08 MORE IMPROBABLE: Math, Saucy Geese, Coffin Kaboom

2013-03-09 MAY WE RECOMMEND: Musical Bureau Song of a Dried Fish

2013-03-10 Improbable Research Events

2013-03-11 -- How to Get the Magazine (*)

2013-03-12 -- Our Address (*)

2013-03-13 -- Please Forward/Post This Issue! (*)

2013-03-14 -- How to start or stop receiving this newsletter (*)

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2013-03-02 Imminent Events

      London, UK                    April 4, 6, 7

      Cambridge, MA, USA            April 16

      Geneva, Switzerland           May 3, 7

      Full schedule at

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2013-03-03 In the Magazine: Sloths & Vampires

...MUCH MORE