This year’s Ig Nobel Euro (and Brexitannia) Tour begins a few days from now, with events in Switzerland, the UK, and The Netherlands. It stars many Ig Nobel Prize winners — each has done something so surprising that it makes people LAUGH, then THINK. Here is the schedule:
- Monday, March 31, 2025, 6:00 pm — EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland. TICKETS TICKETS TICKETS may still be available. The event will also be webcast. With Marc Abrahams and
- 2024 Ig Nobel Chemistry Prize winner Tess Heeremans (using chromatography to separate drunk and sober worms)
- 2024 Ig Nobel Anatomy Prize winners Marjolaine Willems and Roman Khonsari (studying whether the hair on the heads of most people in the northern hemisphere swirls in the same direction — clockwise or counter-clockwise? — as hair on the heads of most people in the southern hemisphere)
- 2024 Ig Nobel Probability Prize winners Alexandra Sarafoglou and Frantisek Bartos (showing, both in theory and by 350,757 experiments, that when you flip a coin, it tends to land on the same side as it started)
- Tuesday, April 1, 2025, 5:30 pm — University of Zurich, Irchel Campus, Room Y24-G-45, Switzerland. This event is open to the public, free. With Marc Abrahams and
- 2017 Ig Nobel Peace Prize winners Milo Puhan, Otto Bräendli, and Alex Suarez (regular playing of a didgeridoo is an effective treatment for obstructive sleep apnoea and snoring)
- Sunday, April 6, 2025, 7:00 pm — Royal Institution, London, UK. TICKETS TICKETS TICKETS may still be available. With Marc Abrahams and
- 2024 Ig Nobel Prize winner Saul Justin Newman (many of the people famous for having the longest lives lived in places that had lousy birth-and-death record-keeping)
- 2014 Ig Nobel Prize winner Minna Lyons (probing the relationship between psychopaths and night owls)
- Friday, April 11, 2025 — Bioelectricity Cluster, Oxford, UK. Marc Abrahams will do the dinner talk, discussing bioelectric and nonbioelectric aspects of the Ig Nobel Prizes. Open to all conference attendees.
- Tuesday, April 15, 2025, 8:00 pm — NEMO, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. [TICKETS TICKETS TICKETS may still be available.] With Marc Abrahams and
- 2022 Ig Nobel Applied Cardiology Prize winners Mariska Kret and Eliska Prochazkova (seeking and finding evidence that when new romantic partners meet for the first time, and feel attracted to each other, their heart rates synchronize)
- 2024 Ig Nobel Chemistry Prize winners Tess Heeremans, Daniel Bonn, Antoine Deblais, and Sander Woutersen (using chromatography to separate drunk and sober worms)
- 2024 Ig Nobel Probability Prize winner Eric-Jan Wagenmakers, Henrik Godmann, and František Bartoš (showing, both in theory and by 350,757 experiments, that when you flip a coin, it tends to land on the same side as it started)
- 2020 Ig Nobel Medicine Prize winner Nienke Vulink (diagnosing a long-unrecognized medical condition: Misophonia, the distress at hearing other people make chewing sounds)
- Keira Lee Rice will do live-drawings to illustrate each talk