Below, please find and enjoy the live stream of this year’s Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, held as usual at Harvard’s historic Sanders Theatre. If you begin playing the video before 5:30 PM Eastern, you will see a helpful countdown to the beginning of the ceremony. For further information about this year’s ceremony, visit the ceremony’s […]
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Watch the 27th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony live!
UPDATE: Ten new Ig Nobel Prize winners were introduced at the 27th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, at Sanders Theater, Harvard University. This year’s theme was “UNCERTAINTY”. You can read some of the early press accounts. The ceremony was webcast. Here’s recorded video:
Watch the 26th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony here!
The 26th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony happens today — Thursday, September 22, 2016. Watch the live webcast here. The broadcast will start at 5:40 PM US eastern time. The ceremony itself begins at 6:00 PM US Eastern Time. (Want to attend the ceremony in person, at Harvard University’s Sanders Theatre? Tickets have been sold out for a while […]
Watch the Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony broadcast live!
The broadcast of the 22nd First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony will begin at 7:15 PM Eastern Time. The ceremony itself is scheduled to start at 7:30 PM Eastern Time. Watch it below! Please feel free to tweet/facebook/G+ along with the ceremony, using #IgNobel
Poll: Which number is the most important?
This month’s Scientific Correctness Survey will settle yet another science-related controversy simply, by asking the public to vote. Please vote: [poll id=”1″]
Proposed Economics of Irrational Hammer-Throwing
We received a kind invitation from someone named Molly Michell. I’m sure we’d all be fascinated to hear her economic take on hammer throwing. Here is Ms. Mitchell’s invitation: > From: Molly Mitchell > Date: Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 3:08 PM > Subject: Economics Guest Post > > Hi , > > I created […]
2011 Ig Nobel Ceremony webcast tonight!
Tonight’s the 21st First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony. 1200 people will have the privilege of watching it live, in-person at Sanders Theatre, Harvard University. Many more will have the opportunity to watch it live on the internet. The webcast will be available here on Improbable.com, at the Improbable Research YouTube channel and at finer […]
Brief site downtime tomorrow night
Just a brief PSA, improbablecom.wpcomstaging.com will be briefly unavailable tomorrow evening, around midnight 3 AM Eastern Time (47 AM Greenwich Time) for a required system upgrade. Downtime should be minimal, if all goes well. In either case, during the outage, please feel free to enjoy Improbable content hosted elsewhere, such as our YouTube channel, and […]
Improbable TV: “The Tay Bridge Disaster” group reading at Central Square
Here’s a new episode of the Improbable Research TV series. It’s the 3rd of many episodes featuring the bad poetry of William Topaz McGonagall. Fans of consecutive numbering will undoubtedly remember the previously-posted 4th episode. William Topaz McGonagall, who died in 1902, is widely regarded as the worst poet ever to write in the English […]
May mini-AIR
The May issue of mini-AIR just went out. Topics include: Imminent Events; Sad News: Professors Lipscomb & Lettvin; Cambridge Science Festival: Songs & After Dark; Worm/Fisheries Competition; Apes, Lice and Prehistory Poet; etc. Mel [pictured here] says, “It’s swell.” (mini-AIR is the simplest way to keep informed about Improbable and Ig Nobel news and events. […]