Last night the 2006 Ig Nobel Prize winners were revealed at the Sixteenth 1st Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony. Tomorrow, Saturday, October 7, 2006, come see and hear them at the Ig Informal Lectures.
Month: October 2006
Ig tonight
Tonight, Thursday, October 5, 2006, the 2006 Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony happens at Harvard University’s Sanders Theatre. ************** Click here to watch the live webcast. *************** The webcast starts at 7:15 pm Boston time (and, of course at equivalent clock times in other places). The special pre-ceremony “Inertia versus Franz Lizst” concert/dance starts about 7:20. […]
Norwegian Ig angst
On this, the day before the Sixteenth 1st Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, we publish a note we received in 2002: First let me say that I am most amused by the Ig Nobel awards concept, although I am a bit concerned by the overrepresentation of Norwegian Ig Nobel Laureates. I have been contemplating writing […]
I fell for my dog straight away
Susan Kurrle, Robert Day and Ian Cameron have a new pet theory that, to be blunt, is about old people. And blunt is exactly what Kurrle, Day and Cameron are. In their words: “Serious fall-related injuries in older people may be caused by pets, most commonly dogs and cats.” This, like the theory of evolution, […]