Saturday, February 15, 2014, 8:00-10:00 pm.
AAAS Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, USA — Fairmont Chicago Hotel, Moulin Rouge Ballroom.
Marc Abrahams will give the latest Ig Nobel / Improbable news, and then you will meet:
- Prof. Kate Clancy will explain — and demonstrate, with help from the Twin City Derby Girls and the Chicago Outfit — the significance of the study “Significant changes in the skin microbiome mediated by the sport of roller derby“.
- Ig Nobel Prize winner Brian Crandall will explain the experimental swallowing and excreting of a parboiled shrew.
- Bethany Brookshire, aka SciCurious, will do a 24/7 Lecture on the topic: “The Brain”
- Ig Nobel Prize winner Prof. Brad Bushman will explicate how his team demonstrated that people who think they are drunk also think they are attractive.
- Prof. Kate Clancy will do a 24/7 Lecture on the topic: “Vaginal pH”
- Ig Nobel Prize winner Dr. Elena Bodnar will tell and show why and how she invented of the Chernobyl-inspired Emergency Bra. [UPDATE: Travel difficulties kept Dr. Bodnar from taking part in this event.]
This session (unlike much of the AAAS meeting) is open to the public, free!
UPDATE: Audience member Diana Yates took this video of Kate Clancy’s talk/demo:
