The Ig Nobel Japan Tour has its final event tonight, with an event at Ishikawa Prefectural University on Thursday, September 27. WHERE: Ishikawa Prefectural University, Hokkoku Shimbun Interchange Hall (2-1 Minami-cho, Kanazawa City). WHEN: 17:30 Marc Abrahams and Ig Nobel Prize winners Yukio Hirose, and Hidehiko Kumagai (who is also president of the university) & Shinsuke Imai will discuss the […]
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The Duck Guy discusses the new Ig Nobel Prize winners (in Dutch)
Kees Moeliker discusses the new Ig Nobel Prize winners, in this video interview. The interview happens in Natuurhistorisch Museum, of which Kees is the director. The museum is also the home of one of the ducks involved in the famous incident documented in described in Kees’s scientific study “The First Case of Homosexual Necrophilia in the Mallard […]
Ig Nobel event—with Two/Too Lectures!—at Hokkaido U
The Ig Nobel Japan Tour continues, with an event at Hokkaido University on Wednesday, September 26. Marc Abrahams and Ig Nobel Prize winners — Prof. Toshiyuki Nakagaki (winner of two Ig Nobel Prizes, for discovering that slime mold can solve puzzles and that slime mold is more efficient than human engineers at designing railway routes), and Prof. Kazunori […]
Ig Nobel events TODAY at Miraikan in Tokyo
The Ig Nobel Japan Tour continues. Today (Sunday, September 23) there will be two events at Miraikan (National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation). The first, talk and questions and answers with Marc Abrahams, will be at 15:30. The second event will be webcast at 17:30-19:00 (Tokyo time). Marc will participate in other special Ig Nobel activities in Tokyo, Sapporo, […]