Please join us at the Improbable Research show on Valentine’s Day night. Here are details:
AAAS Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, USA — Improbable Research Show. Sheraton Boston Hotel (next to the Hines Convention Center), Constitution Ballroom — The annual Improbable Research show will be a featured part of the meeting. All talks will be kept briskly brief, thanks to a delightful timekeeping mechanism. This show is free, and open to the general public — but space is limited, so get there a bit early.
Brief talks:
- Marc Abrahams: A quick look at the most recent crop of Ig Nobel Prize winners
- Jimmy Liao (Ig Nobel Prize winner): How dead trout manage to swim upstream
- Becky Moon: How to live-illustrate a science talk
- Dan Lieberman (Ig Nobel Prize winner): Why the gluteus is so maximus
- Dany Adams: Fundamental ideas in science (that have gotten a little lost along the way)
- Julie Skinner Vargas (on behalf of her Ig Nobel-winning father, the late B.F. Skinner): Housing live pigeons inside missiles to guide the flight paths of the missiles
- Louise Reilly Sacco: Science in the Museum of Bad Art
- with moral, technical, and other support from Projectionist Jack Dietz, Portaborse Michele Liguori
Musical performances:
- Pooja Usgaoncar — “The Murphy’s Law Song”
- Maria Ferrante — “The Dunning Kruger Song“
- Thomas Michel — Tom Lehrer’s “The Elements“
The poster you see here was created by Becky Moon.