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 […]
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 […]
If you’d like some warm, Iggy nostalgia, look back to the year before the Covid pandemic arrived. Here are some accolades from home institutions of some of the 2019 Ig Nobel Prize winners. Centre for Quantum Technologies [Singapore]: Cockroaches win award for quantum researchers The application of an advanced quantum technology to cockroaches has won […]
If you want to submit an article for possible publication in the magazine, write it using only the brain inside your head. Please do NOT send us anything ‘written’ with or by an AI program. Recently we have been receiving a wave of articles written by or with ChatGPT, Claude, or some other large language […]