There are still a few tickets available for the 36th Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, in Zurich, Switzerland. If you can’t make it there, do join one of the eight Official Watch Parties that we – here and now – officially announce and endorse: USA – Cambridge, Massachusetts – hosted by Swissnex; Flanders – Antwerp – […]
Fungi, Fungi, Fungi, at this year’s Ig, Ig, Ig
The theme of this year’s Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, on September 3, will be FUNGI. Each year there is a new theme. The theme does not necessarily apply to the new Ig Nobel Prize winners — rather it is a springboard for opera songs and other interstitial parts of the ceremony. The photo you see […]
The Blowhard Problem
Sometimes a citation can sound like a metaphor: “Asymptotic study of the blowhard problem for the supersonic flow of a gas past sharp slender bodies,” A.M. Antonov, and Yu A. Belov, USSR Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Physics, vol. 16, no. 6, 1976, pp. 227-232.
The Official Ig Nobel Card Game Is Born, Improbably!
Yes, there are card games that make people LAUGH, and yes, there are card games that make people THINK. Now, new to the world, there is an official card game based on the Ig Nobel Prizes, which are all about research that makes people LAUGH, then THINK. Ig Nobel: Improbable Research, The Game is the […]