Be sure to tune to Blast’s Sci-Tech Heretic blog for Mark Baard’s “10 New England Esotericists to Watch in 2010″
Here’s an example:
1. Marc Abrahams. Few can match the wit, charm and energy of this singular Cambridge, Mass. personality. Abrahams is the publisher of the uproarious Annals of Improbable Research, and organizer of the annual Ig Nobel Prizes awards ceremony, which honors "research that makes people laugh and then think." He also writes a weekly column about wacky science (think bras that double as gas masks, and astrology charts for bacteria), for the UK Guardian.