Here are the three officially Improbable parts of TEDx CERN, which happened in May 2013. [We have posted them here separately — this post gathers all three into one place.]
Soprano Maria Ferrante and pianist Alice Martelli perform the song “Some Galaxies”, introduced by Sergio Bertolucci (CERN’s Director for Research and Scientific Computing). The song, part of the mini-opera”Ig Grosso Kaboom,” premiered in 1997 as part of that year’s Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony.
Marc Abrahams, editor of the Annals of Improbable Research and founder of the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, does a TEDx Talk about how all research — real research, that is — is improbable.
Maria Ferrante and Alice Martelli perform the song “Caffeine”. The song, part of the mini-opera”Chemist in a Coffee Shop,” premiered in 2011 as part of that year’s Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony.
See all the parts, Improbable and otherwise, of TEDx CERN at the TEDx CERN web site.