Ig Nobel Prize winner Troy Hurtubise explains in exquisite detail why and how he has spent 25 years building and testing a suit of armor to protect himself against grizzly bears. Vice presents a three-part interview with Troy. Here’s part 1, about his grizzly bear work: BONUS (from 2001): When Troy Met a Kodiak […]
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Eating light (and nothing but!), as told by the winner who says she does not eat food
Jasmuheen explains, in this video interview from 2006, how she explains that she never eats food. A few years earlier, in the year 2000, Jasmuheen (formerly known as Ellen Greve) was awarded the Ig Nobel Prize for literature, for her book “Living on Light,” which explains that although some people do eat food, they don’t ever really need to. BONUS: […]
An appreciation of Ig Nobel winner “Spamford” Wallace
Nate Anderson, writing in Art Technica, takes a fond look at the career of Ig Nobel Prize winner Sanford (“Spamford”) Wallace. Mr. Wallace was awarded the 1997 Ig Nobel Prize in the field of communications; the Ig Nobel citation said “neither rain nor sleet nor dark of night have stayed this self-appointed courier from delivering […]
An Arielian take on trying digestively-processed coffee
Ig Nobel Prize winner Dan Ariely [pictured here, right] answers a reader’s question about a substance that produced an Ig Nobel Prize in 1995. A reader of Ariely’s blog asked: During a recent trip to Los Angeles, I stopped by a coffee shop offering a very expensive coffee called kopi luwak, or civet coffee. I […]