If you will be in Seattle on March 21st then head to the High Dive bar in Fremont to hear Ig Nobel Co-Producer David Kessler give a NerdNite talk: “Onstage & Backstage at The Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony”. David will try to describe The Ig Nobel Prize and also some of the interesting people and […]
Year: 2017
Why I hate an empty bus stop
Rafael Prieto Curiel, in the mathematics magazine Chalkdust, does some rough calculations about waiting for a bus: “Let’s measure how much time I expect to wait for the next bus to arrive as I observe more or fewer passengers in the stop…. If I find zero passengers at the bus stop, 99% of the time I […]
Ig Nobel Spring EuroTour: The Schedule
This year’s Ig Nobel Spring Eurotour is near upon us: — NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY, UK — March 15 — IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON, UK — March 17 — EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland — March 21 — UNIVERSITY OF OSLO, Norway — March 24 — STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY, Stockholm, Sweden — March 27 — KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE, Stockholm, Sweden — […]
Textilomas, Gossypibomas, Gauzomas, or Muslinomas are Not Tumors
Woven fabrics occasionally turn up inside human bodies, where they can be mistaken for tumors. This study looks for and at some of them, and gives them colorful names: “Textiloma (Gossypiboma) Mimicking Recurrent Intracranial Tumor,” Teresa Ribalta, Ian E. McCutcheon, Antonio G. Neto, Deepali Gupta, A. J. Kumar, David A. Biddle, Lauren A. Langford, Janet […]