Please join us on Friday, November 29, 2024, for this year’s Science Friday day-after-Thanksgiving Ig Nobel Prize highlights broadcast.
To many people, the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony — each year honoring ten things that make people LAUGH then THINK — is an annual radio event, surprising stuff and people that pour out of the radio on the day after Thanksgiving.
The ceremony itself actually happened a little earlier in the year.
This will be the 33rd SciFri Ig Nobel Prize broadcast. The highlights are from the the 34th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony.
Here’s some history of the ceremony: The first four ceremonies (1991-1994) took place at the Massachusetts Institute of technology (MIT), the next 25 (1995-2019) at Harvard University, and the four pandemic year ceremonies (2020-2023) happened entirely on the internet. In 2024, the ceremony returned to MIT, with everyone gathered in a large lecture hall.
WHEN: Friday, November 24, 2023. This will be hour 2 of the week’s two-hour Scifri broadcast — in most cities that will be at 3 pm. [But check the time on your local public radio station schedule. You can also listen to it on the internet, via the SciFri web site.]