Laurent Bègue‘s first-person account, in the magazine Cerveau & Psycho, about what happened when he became an Ig Nobel Prize winner: Moi, professeur B., lauréat du prix Ig Nobel Laurent Bègue, professeur de psychologie sociale à Grenoble, a vu ses travaux récompensés par un prix Ig Nobel. Ces prix distinguent les recherches les plus insolites, qui […]
Category: Ig Nobel
News about the Ig Nobel Prizes — honoring achievements that make people LAUGH, then THINK.
We are Horatian, not Juvenalian! …Or so some say…
We discovered today that, in Wikipedia’s entry for Satire, the Ig Nobel Prizes are the first exemplar of one of the two kinds of satire. The entry reads: Horatian vs Juvenalian Satirical literature can commonly be categorized as either Horatian or Juvenalian,[27][need quotation to verify] although the two are not entirely mutually exclusive. Horatian Horatian satire, […]
A jet-lag / viagra scientist and his prize experience
Deigo Golombek waxes happily and thoughtfully about his Ig Nobel Prize experience, in a new newspaper essay and a fairly recent TV interview [see below]. In 2007 the Ig Nobel Prize for aviation was awarded to Golombek and his colleagues — Patricia V. Agostino and Santiago A. Plano— at Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Argentina, for their discovery that Viagra aids […]
Infant Poo Bacteria for Starter for Probiotic Sausages
This study adds texture to Part 2 of the old saying “If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made”: “Characterization of lactic acid bacteria isolated from infant faeces as potential probiotic starter cultures for fermented sausages,” Raquel Rubio, Anna Jofré [pictured here], Belén Martín, Teresa Aymerich, Margarita Garriga, Food […]