ProPublica gives a detailed report about a little-noticed consequence of the oil spill that led to an Ig Nobel Chemistry Prize. The ProPublica report begins: A Massive Oil Spill Helped One Billionaire Avoid Paying Income Tax for 14 Years After the Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling rig exploded in 2010, environmentalists surveying the damage in the […]
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Special Ig Nobel Prizes issue of the magazine
The special Ig Nobel issue (volume 27, number 6) of the magazine, Annals of Improbable Research, has flown its way to subscribers. It gives copious details of the 31st First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, and of the winners. This special issue, like many other special issues of the magazine, is also available for purchase. […]
A Gummy Tribute to the 2021 Ig Nobel Ecology Prize Winners
Lavie Tridhar writes, in Nature, a gummy tribute of sorts to the 2021 Ig Nobel Ecology Prize winners, Leila Satari, Alba Guillén, Àngela Vidal-Verdú, and Manuel Porcar, who used genetic analysis to identify the different species of bacteria that reside in wads of discarded chewing gum stuck on pavements in various countries. Tridhar’s tribute begins: […]
Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony on “Science Friday” on the day after Thanksgiving
Friday, November 26, 2021 is the day for this year’s day-after-Thanksgiving Ig Nobel special on the Science Friday radio program, on public radio stations in the USA. This is the 30th year for the special. (This is the 31st year for the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony itself.) WHAT: This is a specially edited version of […]
“Why do I always spill my coffee?”
Oxford maths PhD student Sophie Abrahams explicates the Ig Nobel Prize-winning research on what happens when one walks backwards while (or whilst) holding a cup of coffee. The 2017 Ig Nobel Prize for fluid dynamics was awarded to Jiwon (Jessie) Han, for studying the dynamics of liquid-sloshing, to learn what happens when a person walks […]