News about the Ig Nobel Prizes — honoring achievements that make people LAUGH, then THINK.
Tom Lum visited the 35th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, on behalf of Scientific American magazine. He met some unexpected people there (Julie Mannella and the other Ig Nobel winners, opera singers, Bill Kaelin, Mariette DiChristina,…) , then crafted this video report about the experience. Meanwhile, taking a more traditional approach, Chris Simms […]
Dr. Trisha Pashricha gave a 24/7 lecture at this year’s Ig Nobel Prize ceremony. She subsequently posted a video clip of it on Instagram, saying: Watch me explain to a room full of actual Nobel laureates how we discovered that taking your smartphone to the bathroom was linked to an increased risk of hemorrhoids. The […]
One way to make it big in physics is to make pasta. Physics Magazine interviewed the Italian physicists who did exactly that — and consequently won the 2025 Ig Nobel Prize for physics. Here is the beginning of that interview (read the whole interview at the Physics Magazine web site): Pasta Physics Scoops Up an Ig Nobel […]
Joshua Mhlakela [pictured here, in a screen capture from his webcast] was 14 years too late to become a co-winner of an Ig Nobel Mathematics Prize — too late in making his prediction that the world will end at a particular, specific time. The particular time is this week. The International Business Times reports (on […]