Today, Saturday, January 14, ARISIA (the con for people who are going to ARISIA) in Boston will feature a special session on the Ig Nobel Prizes and Improbable Research.
WHERE & WHEN: ARISIA, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Westin Waterfront Hotel, 425 Summer Street. Room: Lewis (3E). 2:30 pm.
WHAT: Highlights from Ig Nobel Prize winning studies and patents, presented in dramatic mini-readings by luminaries and experts (in some field). Between presentations, members of the audience will be challenged to divine the intended purpose of diagrams from certain research papers.
WITH: Marc Abrahams, Ig Nobel co-producer and stage manager David Kessler, human spotlight Jim Bredt, and others.
UPDATE: A photo from the event. James Bacon of London in 2014, a visitor to ARISIA, performs a reading, while human spotlight James Bredt provides illumination. David Kessler provided this photo:
