World Standards Day 2026 is on WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2026. The USA celebrates World Standards Day 2026 on TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2026. We have long celebrated this what-is-now standard dueling dual World Standards Day standard.
Are You More Unique than a Nine-Banded Armadillo?
Be you an armadillo or not, others may or may not perceive you to be unique. The how and why of that gets a vigorous (and possibly unique) writeup in this study: “What Makes Each of Us Unique? The Nine-Banded Armadillo as a Model to Study Individuality,” Delva P. Leao, Alvaro Duque, and Marcelo O. […]
Ig Nobel Celebration Event in Cambridge, Massachusetts, September 24
Please join us for BOST-Ig, AN IG NOBEL CELEBRATION IN CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS, USA — Thursday, September 24, 2026, at the Swiss Consulate, Swissnex, 420 Broadway, Cambridge, 6:00-7:00 pm, then light refreshments (doors open 5:30). WHAT: A celebration of the new Ig Nobel Prize winners, who received their prizes on September 3 in Zurich, Switzerland. at the […]
SUNDAY — Ig Nobel Face-to-Face in Tokyo
This Sunday, September 20, 2026, the Miraikan science museum in Tokyo will host, for the fourth consecutive year, a special Ig Nobel Face-to-Face event. Four Ig Nobel Prize winners and a Nobel laureate will ask each other about their work… and answer questions from the audience. Paper airplanes will fill the air. Kiyoshi Furusawa will […]