Bethany Brookshire (aka SciCurious) attended last night’s Ig Nobel Prize ceremony. Her report (in Science News) about the physics prize winner, begins: Banana peel slipperiness wins IgNobel prize in physics BOSTON — We’ve all seen the cartoons. Bugs Bunny wolfs down a banana and casually tosses the skin onto the floor. Moments later, Elmer Fudd comes […]
Year: 2014
Playing with pigs and lasers
Pigs, like humans, can get bored. Perhaps they’d like to play a game to amuse themselves? Even better, with interacting humans? A project designed to examine such possibilities is underway at Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht and Wageningen University Livestock Research Department in The Netherlands. It’s called ‘Playing With Pigs’ and is “researching the complex […]
Here are the 2014 Ig Nobel Prize winners
The 2014 Ig Nobel Prize winners were introduced at the 24th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, at Harvard’s Sanders Theatre.
Ig Nobel tonight!
The 24th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony happens tonight: Thursday, September 18, 6:00 pm (US eastern time). Watch the live webcast. And… Simultaneously follow the action on Twitter: James Harkin (James is the head writer for QI, The Museum of Curiosity, and the podcast No Such Thing as a Fish) will be on stage, live-tweeting at @ImprobResearch Lots […]