Preparations for the imminent Ig Nobel Tour of the UK occur fast-and-furiously, or not at all. Here’s an example — a snippet of conversation with Charles Paxton, who shared the 2002 Ig Nobel Biology Prize for co-writing the report “Courtship Behaviour of Ostriches Towards Humans Under Farming Conditions in Britain.” Dr. Paxton will be a […]
Category: Ig Nobel
News about the Ig Nobel Prizes — honoring achievements that make people LAUGH, then THINK.
Further frog-sniffing find
ABC News reports (on February 22, 2006) a further discovery by the team that won the 2005 Ig Nobel Biology Prize: Smelly Frogs Don’t Get Insect Bites Researchers have found that some Australian frogs create their own insect repellent, resembling rotten meat and others roasted cashew nuts or thyme leaves. The research team, which includes […]
Imaginary numbers back in the news
Two of the most mathematically-adept Ig Prize winners — Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling — go on trial today in Houston, Texas. A CBS News report today says: Lay and Skilling, almost literally, are the last men standing; the last Enron executives at the center of the scandal who have not pleaded guilty, had their […]
Photos from last year’s UK tour
We have just posted some photos from last year (2005)’s Ig Nobel Tour of the UK. The schedule for this year’s tour — which will happen in March, for National Science Week — is taking shape, with shows in Oxford, St. Andrews, Warrington and London, and more to be announced. (If your institution would like […]