June 5th is Dead Duck Day, commemorating a 1995 incident that took place outside the Rotterdam Museum of Natural History (“A Dead Serious Museum“) that has inspired people around the world to think about birds, safety, and just how hard they should be laughing about (or with) nature. Dead Duck Day is observed around the […]
Jan Philipp Röer has joined the The Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists™ (LFHCfS). He says: Hair plays a very important role in my research, specifically the hair cells of the inner ear. I’m interested in what makes a sound attract our attention and the mechanisms we have in place to prevent irrelevant sound from […]
The 24/7 Lectures are a long-running part of the Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony – a history long enough that there have now been exactly 100 of them! That’s 100 attempts by great thinkers to: give a complete, technical description of a topic in just 24 seconds; and then give a clear summary of a topic […]
The 31st First Annual Ig® Nobel Prize ceremony happens Thursday, September 9, 2021, at 6 pm (US eastern time). Watch it right here. Alternatively, watch the Japanese webstream. [VIDEO NOTE, added September 12, 2021: YouTube’s notorious takedown algorithms sometimes block the ceremony recording that lives there. We have so far been unable to find a […]