News about the Ig Nobel Prizes — honoring achievements that make people LAUGH, then THINK.
Join us this Thursday afternoon in Leiden, the Netherlands. The show features Marc Abrahams and these Ig Nobel Prize winners: Mirjam Tuk (Medicine Prize, 2011): decision making with a full and empty bladder Antoine Deblais (Chemistry Prize, 2024): using chromatography to separate drunk and sober worms Ida Sabelis (Medicine Prize, 2000): sex in an MRI […]
This year’s Dead Duck Day celebration was spectacular in multiple ways. Maybe most spectacular, after the traditional commemoration of the incident that led to ornithologist Kees Moeliker’s eye-opening and Ig Nobel Prize-winning scientific paper “The First Case of Homosexual Necrophilia in the Mallard“, was the arrival of Rotterdam’s deputy mayor bearing a message and a […]
This Friday, June 5, 2026 will be Dead Duck Day — and it will be the second most spectacular of all the Dead Duck Days. The most spectacular, of course, was the day the two ducks figured in the now-famous collision with, and hookup next to, the Natural History Museum in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. That […]
TICKETS TICKETS TICKETS to attend the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony went on sale 12 May, 2026. The 36th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony will take place in Zurich, Switzerland, in early September. NOTE: Learn why the Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony Is Moving to Europe (after 35 years in the USA). The logo, below, by […]