Four Ig Nobel winners coming to Leeds on 8 March

The Ig Nobel show—featuring a full gaggle of Ig Nobel Prize winners—is coming to Leeds for the first time ever, as the kickoff event in the Ig Nobel Tour of the UK, part of National Science & Engineering Week. The Ig winners have each been honored for doing something that makes people laugh, then think. They each will explain, to the extent possible, what they did and why they did it.

When: Thursday, 8 March, 2012, 6:00 pm

Where: Leeds Festival of Science, University of Leeds, Conference Auditorium 1

Featuring:

• Marc Abrahams, organizer of the Ig Nobel Prizes, editor of the Annals of Improbable Research, and Guardian columnist
• Claire Rind (Ig Nobel Prize winner—for measuring locust brain activity whilst watching Star Wars)
• David Gadian (Ig Nobel Prize winner—for measuring the difference between London taxi drivers’ brains and those of passengers)
• Charles Spence (Ig Nobel Prize winner—forelectronically modifying the sound of carefully bitten potato crisps)
• Piers Barnes (Ig Nobel Prize winner—for the maths of taking photos in which no one is blinking)
  
• John Hoyland (New Scientist‘s Feedback editor, who will reveal the year’s best discoveries)

TICKETS are available now