About: Seth Gliksman

The Ig Nobel Prizes honor achievements that make people LAUGH, then THINK. This Ig Nobel moment takes place at the 2001 First Annual Ig Nobel Ceremony when  Chittaranjan Andrade and B.S. Srihari of the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences were awarded an Ig Nobel in Public Health for their research into the proclivity of children to pick […]

This historic Ig Nobel Favorite Moment video stars Rob Sanders, who helped organize many Ig Nobel Prize ceremonies. The Ig Nobel Prizes honor achievements that make people LAUGH, then THINK. The 30th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony will be webcast September 17, 2020 at www.improbablecom.wpcomstaging.com. Coordinator, Narrator, & Typist: Seth Gliksman

The Ig Nobel Prizes honor achievements that make people LAUGH, then THINK. This Ig Nobel moment takes place at the 2018 First Annual Ig Nobel Ceremony during Act III of “The Broken Heart Opera,” in which clever children build a toy heart so they can break it so they can mend it. This is a glimpse […]

This historic Ig Nobel Favorite Moment video stars Kazutaka Kurihara and Koji Tsukada, who were awarded an Ig Nobel Prize in acoustics, for creating the SpeechJammer — a machine that disrupts a person’s speech, by making them hear their own spoken words at a very slight delay. The Ig Nobel Prizes honor achievements that make people LAUGH, […]