The 2026 Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony is almost here, and the best way to enjoy it is with others. If you can’t make it to Zurich (we moved the ceremony to Europe!), the second best way is hosting a Watch Party. The ceremony will be live-streamed on Thursday, 3 September 2026, 7:00 – 8:30 pm […]
People who worship cats (or maybe less fervently, care unusually much about stuff related to cats) inspire other people to try to analyze why and how those people care so very much. J.C.E. Austin made one of the most notable recent attempts to make sense of it all. Details are in her PhD dissertation: ” […]
Mice and humans live in close proximity. This leads to conflict: we experience nuisances and actively combat these rodents. But is that always necessary? The Natural History Museum Rotterdam has collected mice that met their ends in the most improbable ways: trapped inside (the handle of) a paint roller, drowned in olive oil, electrocuted in […]
A California-based company called R3 Bio says, on its web site: Recent Media Coverage We noted recent sensational media coverage. Such attention is not encouraged by us. R3 Bio works with microscopic structures in cell culture. We do not produce the types of large scale structures envisioned in the media. We do not work with […]
Venture capitalists use (mostly) other people’s money to make bets on the future, and/or to collect chunks of that money as payment to themselves for collecting the money and gambling some of it. This new paper looks back over how those bets about the future seem to compare with making random guesses: “Do Venture Capitalists […]