The influence of the Taiwan Legislature — specifically of its flying fists of fury, continues to spread nearly twenty years after the the solons were awarded the Ig Nobel Peace Prize. Today the Khaleej Times remarks (editorially): LIKE TERRORISM and epidemics, parliamentary pandemoniums have also conquered boundaries. Those left gasping by last week’s ruckus in […]
Category: Ig Nobel
News about the Ig Nobel Prizes — honoring achievements that make people LAUGH, then THINK.
Magazine: the special Ig Nobel issue
The special Ig Nobel issue (vol. 19, no. 6) of the magazine (the Annals of Improbable Research) is now out! Articles include “The 24-7 Lectures“, “Improbable Medical Review“, “Ig® Nobel Limericks: Beetles, Cows, Intoxication“, and more, more, more, including new helpings of “Improbable Research Review”, “Boys Will Be Boys”, “Soft Is Hard”, and other outstandingly improbable research […]
Ig Nobel Conclave in Goa, India
Five Ig Nobel winners travelled to Goa, India to explain how and why they have won their prize, at the Quark 2014 Techno Management Fest ‘Beyond Dimensions’ at the BITS Pilani K.K. Birla Goa Campus. On Sunday, February 9th 2014, their show starts at about 7pm local time in the auditorium. Try to be there […]
Sad News: Dr. Fesmire, of digital-rectal-massage-to-cure-hiccups fame, is gone
We note with sadness the news that Ig Nobel Prize winner Dr. Francis Fesmire died. Dr. Fesmire found joy and fame by putting his finger on — nay, in — the pulse of his times. He was awarded the 2006 Ig Nobel Prize in medicine for his medical case report “Termination of Intractable Hiccups with Digital […]