Charles Spence, 2008 Ig Nobel nutrition Prize winner (for electronically modifying the sound of a potato chip to make the person chewing the chip believe it to be crisper and fresher than it really is) profiled in The Guardian: …How to make bug-eating acceptable to westerners is one of the many gustatory challenges that he and his […]
Year: 2014
Comparative ‘iffiness’ of medical research articles
If one could know for sure how iffy things are for English-speaking doctors compared to how iffy things are for French-speaking doctors, one might reach the same conclusions as are reached in this study: “The ‘iffiness’ of medical research articles —A comparison of English if and French si,” Shirley Carter-Thomas [pictured here], in Language and […]
Ig Nobel and Improbable talks, in Rotterdam Friday
Coming mere days after the Nederlandse Ig Nobel Night (which happened September 20), there will be another Ig Nobel Event in The Netherlands. On Friday, September 26, 2014 at 9:45 pm the New Horizons Festival at the Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam hosts our European Bureau Chief Kees Moeliker who will explain ‘How to win an Ig […]
Physics Buzz at the Ig (with sound and pix)
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 […]