The photo above is a still from a CERN teaching resources video (2014). “Use a cymbal or metallic plate that can vibrate freely. Use a flash, for example from a camera, hold it close to the plate and flash. You will hear a low tone. Physics: The moment of the photons are transferred in an […]
Year: 2017
TODAY —Ig Nobel on “Science Friday”
Today is the annual special Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony broadcast on the Science Friday program on public radio in the US (and on the Internet). It’s a specially edited recording of the 27th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony. Give it a listen!
“Junk”—a new play about the first Ig Nobel Economics Prize winner (Michael Milken)
“Junk” is a new play, based on the life of the winner of the first Ig Nobel Economics Prize. That Ig Nobel prize was awarded, in 1991, to Michael Milken, titan of Wall Street and father of the junk bond, to whom the world is indebted. James B. Stewart reviewed the new play, for the New York […]
Burgeoning British appreciation of pseudo-profound bullshit
A new book—Business Bullshit, by André Spicer—follows in the tradition of the study that won the 2016 Ig Nobel Peace Prize. That Ig Nobel Prize was awarded to Gordon Pennycook, James Allan Cheyne, Nathaniel Barr, Derek Koehler, and Jonathan Fugelsang for their scholarly study called “On the Reception and Detection of Pseudo-Profound Bullshit.” They published that study in the research journal […]