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 second of those sessions.
The people and topics you will see here:
- Anatomy prize: Hemispheric hair swirls, clockwise or anti-clockwise? (Roman Khonsari)
- Probability prize: Heads or tails, evidence after 350,757 coin flips (Eric-Jan Wagenmakers and a cameo by František Bartoš)
- Chemistry prize: Chromatographic separation of drunk and sober worms (Sander Woutersen)
Introductory remarks: Kate Silverman Wilson, MIT Museum
Discussion host: Karen Hopkin
Bananas: Becky Moon and Kees Moeliker