The 23rd First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony happens one month from today — on Thursday, September 12.
A few TICKETS are still available. The ceremony will be webcast live.
The ceremony will include the premiere of a new opera about the Blonsky Device (US Patent #3,216,423) to aid women in giving birth — the woman is strapped onto a circular table, and the table is then rotated at high speed. (The inventors, George and Charlotte Blonsky, were posthumously awarded an Ig Nobel Prize, in 1999.) The opera singers will be backed by an orchestra composed of eminent Boston area researcher/doctors, and supported by several Nobel laureates in non-singing roles.
Two days later (on Saturday, September 14) come the Ig Informal Lectures, at MIT.