“Insect Sex Intersections” is a new episode (the seventh episode) in the series “Laugh Then Think: Japan’s Offbeat Science” broadcast by the Japanese TV network NHK. You can watch it online. The series looks closely and lovingly at some of Japan’s many Ig Nobel Prize winners.
The producers summarize the new episode this way: “An investigation of a female insect with a penis-like sex organ earned entomologist Yoshizawa Kazunori an Ig Nobel Prize in 2017. We learn about his lifelong quest to identify unknown species.”
BONUS: NHK’s 2002 documentary about the Ig Nobel Prizes
In the year 2002 NHK produced an hour-long documentary about the Ig Nobel Prizes. Broadcast on Christmas, it was one of the most-viewed programs on the network that entire year. Here’s a recording of it: