The 20th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony happens tonight at Sanders Theatre, Harvard University. The live webcast begins at 7:15 pm (Boston, MA, USA time) at http://www.youtube.com/improbableresearch
Month: September 2010
Who’s who at the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony
If you attend the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony tonight, or watch the live webcast, you might well wonder “Who are all those people?” We’ve put most of them (or at least their photos and descriptions) on an Ig ceremony who’s who web page. The new Ig Nobel Prize winners are of course a secret until […]
Cyclops — Keeping an Eye on Pots
Wrapping up our celebration of Pot Week, here’s a singular pot study. “Keeping an Eye on Your Pots: The Provenance of Neolithic Ceramics from the Cave of the Cyclops, Youra, Greece,” Patrick Quinn, Peter Day, Vassilis Kilikoglou, Edward Faber, Stella Katsarou-Tzeveleki, Adamantios Sampson, Journal of Archaeological Science, Volume 37, Issue 5, May 2010, Pages 1042-1052, […]
1st report about Bodnar’s invention for men
The Boston Herald became the first press organization to report on Dr. Elena Bodnar’s new invention — the counterpart device for men of Ig Nobel Prize-winning earlier invention, the brassiere-that-in-an-emergency-converts-into-a-pair-of-protective-face-masks. The new invention is a men’s dress shirt that, in an emergency, can be quickly converted into a single protective facemask. Dr. Bodnar publicly unveiled […]