Today the new Ig Nobel Prize winners attempt to explain, if they can, what they did and why they did it. The winners received their prizes Thursday evening, at the 24th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony. Come be part of this improbable [definition of “improbable”: “not what you expect”] event! The Ig Informal Lectures Saturday, […]
Year: 2014
What it’s like to be on stage at the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony
What’s it like to be on stage at the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony? Here’s a visual/aural taste, recorded by Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek, who helped hand out the Ig Nobel Prizes to the winners at last night’s Ig Nobel Prize ceremony:
A Swedish TV news report about the 2014 Ig Nobel Prizes
Swedish TV4’s Nyhyterna program produced this report about last night’s Ig Nobel Prize ceremony. Here’s the beginning of it (the report also includes an interview about herring farts with Haken Westerberg, co-winner of the 2004 Ig Nobel Prize for biology): Udda forskning belönas Harvarduniversitetet delar varje år ut forskningspriset Ignobel – ett pris som vid första anblick kan […]
What happened at the book launch of Too [video]
WGBH Forum produced this video of US launch of my new book This Is Improbable Too. The launch happened Friday, September 5, at Harvard Bookstore in Cambridge. I and several members of the Ig Nobel gang — Robin Abrahams, Melissa Franklin, Corky White, and Gus Rancatore — did brief dramatic readings from studies I wrote about in the book. You can get This Is Improbable […]