This April, 2024, the Ig Nobel EuroTour will spring to life after several years of hibernation (the hibernation was caused by the Covid pandemic). It’s all about research (and researchers) that makes people LAUGH, then THINK.
[NOTE: After the tour, we added some video to this blog post. See below]
Events are scheduled in GERMANY, DENMARK, SWITZERLAND, ITALY:
- Berlin — April 3, 4, 5
- Aarhus — April 9
- Copenhagen — April 10
- Lausanne — April 16
- Rome — April 19, 20, 21
The three shows at the Rome Science Festival will be on consecutive evenings, with two different Ig Nobel Prize winners in each show..
Details are on our coming events page.
Livestreaming
The show at EPFL in Lausanne will be webcast live.
The show at the University of Aarhus will be livestreamed exclusively to more than 300 libraries, theaters, and other locations in Denmark and beyond (some also offering dinner), as indicated in this map:
The three shows in Rome will all be part of the Rome Science Festival — they will happen on consecutive evenings, each with different Ig Nobel Prize winners.
Who Will Be There
These are the Ig Nobel Prize winners who will appear in one or more of the events. Each has done something that makes people LAUGH, then THINK:
MARISKA KRET (seeking and finding evidence that when new romantic partners meet for the first time, and feel attracted to each other, their heart rates synchronize)
KEES MOELIKER — discovery of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard duck
JONATHAN WILLIAMS — chemically analyzing the air inside movie theaters, to test whether the odors produced by an audience reliably indicate the levels of violence, sex, antisocial behavior, drug use, and bad language in the movie the audience is watching
SUSANNE SCHÖTZ — purring, chirping, chattering, trilling, tweedling, murmuring, meowing, moaning, squeaking, hissing, yowling, howling, growling, and other modes of cat–human communication
CHRIS MOULIN — studying the sensations people feel when they repeat a single word many, many, many, many, many, many, many times
DAMIEN BOUFFARD — measuring the extent to which ocean-water mixing is affected by the sexual activity of anchovies
MINNA LYONS — amassing evidence that people who habitually stay up late are, on average, more self-admiring, more manipulative, and more psychopathic than people who habitually arise early in the morning
CHRIS MCMANUS — scrotal asymmetry in man and in ancient sculpture
ILARIA BUFALARI — many identical twins cannot tell themselves apart visually
SILVANO GALLUS — evidence that pizza might protect against illness and death, if the pizza is made and eaten in Italy
The team of ALESSANDRO PLUCHINO, ANDREA RAPISARDA, and ALESSIO EMANUELE BIONDO — why success most often goes not to the most talented people, but instead to the luckiest
DONATELLA MARAZZITI — biochemically, romantic love may be indistinguishable from having severe obsessive-compulsive disorder
Updates: Some video from the tour
Here are two video highlights from the tour, a TV appearance in advance of the three Rome Science Festival events, and a recording of the Ig Nobel show at EPFL in Lausanne: