We have just heard the sad news that Roy Glauber died. Roy was our friend, and for more than 20 years he was a sweepingly charismatic part of the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony—he was “The Keeper of the Broom,” who almost every year would sweep paper airplanes from the stage during the Ig Nobel ceremony, […]
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Ig Nobel on Science Friday on the day after Thanksgiving
The 28th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony will be broadcast on the Science Friday program this Friday, November 23rd, 2018, in a specially-edited, recorded one-hour highlights version. This continues the day-after-Thanksgiving tradition—now in its 27th year—for Science Friday’s special coverage of the ceremony. In most parts of the USA, it will be the first hour […]
The Man Who—With a Blinding, Flapping Visor—Drove on a Highway
“John’s Story – The Science of Error” is a new documentary film about John Senders, the Ig Nobel Prize winning, pioneering student of human attention and distraction. Back Lane Studios produced the film: The 2011 Ig Nobel Prize for Public Safety was awarded to John Senders of the University of Toronto, CANADA, for conducting a series of safety […]
Third-generation Ig Nobel Prize winner David Hu, profiled in the New York Times
David Hu’s Ig Nobel Prize-winning research, and David Hu, and David Hu’s Ig Nobel Prize-winning former advisor, and that advisor’s double-Ig Nobel Prize-winning former adviser, and lots more, are profiled in the New York Times: …As male infants will do, his son urinated all over the front of Dr. Hu’s shirt, for a full 21 […]