“Curiosos y absurdos descubrimientos son celebrados en los premios Ignobel” —Efecto Naim explains the Ig Nobel Prizes:
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News about the Ig Nobel Prizes — honoring achievements that make people LAUGH, then THINK.
Ciencia Colada takes an Ig Nobel ramble
Ciencia Colada takes a two-part ramble, in Spanish, through some history of the Ig Nobel Prizes and glances, a bit, at some of the other activities of Improbable Research (including a few of the Improbable Research Collection videos): Los Premios Nobel Alternativos. Parte 1 Los Premios Nobel Alternativos. Parte 2
Cleaning with spit, and now with pillars and pancakes
Last month human saliva got its due, with the awarding of the 2018 Ig Nobel Prize for chemistry, as an effective agent to clean surfaces. This month, pillars and pancakes are served up as an effective way to pattern surfaces so that those surfaces will be self-cleaning. Pillar/pancake details are in the new study “Pillars […]
The case of the missing(?) feet
A strange (and true) news report from 1996, about an aftermath of that year’s Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, begins: Sorting Out This Case Could Take The Wisdom of a Learned Hand —- By Ross Kerber Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal The value of a Nobel Prize-worthy feat is clearly established: The Royal Swedish Academy […]