Tonight — Sunday, April 17 — we are doing two shows at the Edinburgh Science Festival. The shows are very different from each other. Please join us! And please feel free to bring videocams to document the event. Details:
- 7:30 pm — “Improbable Research & the Ig Nobel Prizes“. (Location: The Jam House, 5 Queen Street). Tickets: Book tickets online. Featuring:
- Marc Abrahams
- Ig Nobel Prize winner Catherine Douglas (Veterinary Medicine prize 2009, for showing that cows who have names give more milk than cows that are nameless)
- Ig Nobel Prize winner Richard Stephens (Peace Prize 2010, for confirming the widely held belief that swearing relieves pain.
- 9:30 pm — “Improbable Research After Dark“. (Location: The Jam House, 5 Queen Street) An all-star lineup of scientists and science journalists will perform two-minute dramatic readings from studies that were honored with an Ig Nobel Prize. Some of the studies are on topics that might possibly, conceivably, theoretically, offend individuals who are prim, proper, and of high sensibility. We advise that anyone who is easily offended by anything should not come to this event. Tickets: Book tickets online. Readers include:
- Marc Abrahams (@MarcAbrahams)
- Ig Nobel Prize winner Catherine Douglas
- Ig Nobel Prize winner Richard Stephens
- Sian Bevan (@SianBevan)
- Gordon Rutter
- Glenn Murphy
- Robin Ince (@RobinInce)
- Clare Marsh
- Jamie Gallagher (@JamieBGall)
- Barbara Webb
AND TOMORROW: Tomorrow — Monday, April 18 — we will be doing a special thee-part event involving bad poems of William Topaz. McGonagall, in the afternoon (beginning in a bookstore, then to the McGonagall’s grave, then to a pub) . Please join us for that, also!