News about the Ig Nobel Prizes — honoring achievements that make people LAUGH, then THINK.
November of this year, 2026, is a good time to appreciate a prognostication paper published in the year 1960: “Doomsday: Friday, 13 November, AD 2026,” Heinz Von Foerster, Patricia M. Mora, and Lawrence W. Amiot, Science, vol. 132, no. 3436, 1960, pp. 1291-1295. The authors write: “At this date human population will approach infinity if […]
The day after receiving their Ig Nobel Prizes in a gala ceremony in Zurich, Switzerland on September 3, 2026, many of the new winners gathered to ask each other questions about their work, and to answer questions from an audience. This video documents that event.
Please join us, if you will (and don’t join us, if you won’t) for these upcoming events in Berlin, Germany: FRIDAY, November 6, 2026: Falling Walls Science Summit — Open to attendees of Falling Walls. SUNDAY, November 8, 2026, 16:30-18:00: Berlin Science Week — Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, in the Miriam Makeba Auditorium. […]
Atlant Bieri made this video about his experience on the day he and his team were awarded an Ig Nobel Prize. The 2026 Ig Nobel Soil Science Prize was awarded to Franz Bender, Marcel van der Heijden, Atlant Bieri, and Pia Viviani, for burying 1000 identical pairs of underpants in more than 25 countries, and […]