The American Physical Society’s Physics Buzz blog visited the 24th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony. The resulting podcast includes interviews with some of the winners. There are some nice accompanying photos, including these ones, reproduced here with Physics Buzz’s captions:
Natasha Rosenberg, aka “The Human Spotlight” illuminates the way for an Ig Noble aficionado before the ceremony.
University of Toronto neurologist Kang Lee accepts his team’s neuroscience prize from Nobel laureate Carol Greider, for studying why people claim they see Jesus in unexpected places.
Sometimes speeches run long, like Jaroslav Flegr did when he accepted the public health prize for researching the dangers of cat ownership. The solution: Little Miss Sweetie-Poo is on hand to insist that the speaker “Please stop, I’m board!” [sic]
Wilczek enjoys a nice frosty glass of the food substitute Soylent. Fellow Nobel laureate Richard Roberts is having none of it.