Research and other stuff that makes people LAUGH, then THINK.
Nature magazine published a nice editorial about the Ig Nobel Prizes, on September 8, 2026. You might enjoy reading it. And here’s a quick video presentation by Nature journalist Maren Hunsberger: You might also enjoy dipping into some of the other press accounts of this year’s Ig Nobel Prize ceremony and the new winners.
“ ‘This is dangerous’: slime moulds and the bitter debate over the nature of intelligence — Scientists are battling over whether supposedly simple organisms should be considered ‘intelligent’. The outcome could reshape our understanding of the natural world – and our own place within it”. So says the headline of a report by Samanth Subramanian, […]
Odd Showers, a book published in 1870 in London, is explicitly [the book itself says] “intended chiefly for young persons.” Non-young persons are not explicitly prohibited from reading the book.
Jesse Han is becoming good at winning unusual awards. In 2017 he traveled to Harvard University, to receive the 2017 Ig Nobel Fluid Dynamics Prize, for studying the dynamics of liquid-sloshing, to learn what happens when a person walks backwards while carrying a cup of coffee. [His research on that was published in study called […]