Calling all Arisia fen: Improbable Research will return to Arisia on January 17, 2015 and we’re asking the fen to help us find the best people to present some of our research papers. What qualities should the person you nominate have to be a reader at this event? Charismatic stage presence A good speaking voice […]
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24/7 Lectures get their own webpage
Since 2001, the Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony has included the 24/7 Lectures, in which some of the world’s top thinkers each explained a concept in two ways: First, a complete, technical description in 24 seconds, and then, a clear summary that anyone can understand in 7 words. Now all the 24/7 Lectures are collected, together in one place. You […]
Announcing the Ig Nobel free-tickets-to-the-2015-ceremony winner
Earlier this year we announced that people who purchased a subscription to the Annals of Improbable Research between Sept 18 and Sept 30 would be entered in a drawing for 2 free tickets to next year’s (2015) Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony. To ensure a fair drawing, we separated the duties of numbering the eligible entries and […]
2014 Ig Nobel Prize Winners added to sortable database
The sortable database of Ig Nobel Prize Winners now includes data from all 24 years of prizes, including the recently announced 2014 prizes. The information lives on the Silk data publishing platform, and helped us determine that we have awarded Ig Nobel Prizes in exactly 50 categories. It also helped University Ranking Watch compare the […]