The Ig Nobel Prizes honor things so surprising that they make people LAUGH, then THINK. At the 2024 Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, ten new prizes were awarded.
Two days later, most of the winners gathered, at the MIT Museum in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to ask each other questions. This was the 2024 Ig Nobel Face-to-Face event.
The day had three sessions, each with three winners. This video shows the first of those sessions.
The people and topics you will see here:
- Pigeons as missile navigators (Julie Skinner Vargas, accepting on behalf of her father, the late B.F. Skinner)
- How dead trout swim upstream (Jimmy Liao)
- The not-so-long lives of super-centenarians (Saul Justin Newman)
Introductory remarks: Kate Silverman Wilson, MIT Museum
Discussion host: Marc Abrahams
Bananas: Kees Moeliker, Becky Moon
Kiyoshi Furusawa: Himself [Note: Kiyoshi Furusawa will be the host at a Face-To-Face event in Tokyo, Japan, at the Miraikan science museum, on November 17, 2024.
Discussion host: Marc Abrahams
Bananas: Kees Moeliker, Becky Moon
Kiyoshi Furusawa: Himself [Note: Kiyoshi Furusawa will be the host at a Face-To-Face event in Tokyo, Japan, at the Miraikan science museum, on November 17, 2024.