Improbable Research shows in Illinois

If you’re near Champaign, Illinois, come to the Improbable Research show on Wednesday, October 25, at 3:00 pm at the Beckman Institute. It will feature Ig Nobel Prize winners Dan Simons (attention and gorilla suits) and Theo Gray (the periodic table table) , and Ig Nobel winner George Goble’s colleague Joe Cychosz (the world’s quickest barbeque, using liquid oxygen), and computer palmist Joe Futrelle. There will also be an Ig Nobel mini-opera — “Inertial Makes the World Go Around” — performed a capella by the Girls Next Door. The Beckman is, of course, where Ig Nobel winner Jillian Clarke did her research on the validity of the Five-Second Rule.

If you are near Decatur, come to the Improbable Research talk by Marc Abrahams on Thursday, October 26, at 8:00 pm at Millikin University. It’s part of the ACUBE meeting. It’s in the Leighty-Tabor Science Building, room 001.
Both of these Improbable Research events are open to the public; and both are free.