The 2018 Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded at the 28th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, on Thursday, September 13, 2018, at Harvard’s Sanders Theatre. The ceremony was webcast. Here’s video of the entire ceremony, and a list of the winners: [Youtube]GQqZVthHyuA[/youtube] For links to the prize-winning studies, see the list of all past (and new!) Ig […]
Category: Improbable Investigators
People who do research that makes people LAUGH, then THINK.
Is He on the Level? The Master of Complexity.
“Is he on the level?” and “What level?” are two questions you might ask after learning about Dr. Michael Lamport Commons and the 16 levels he invented. The 16 levels are parts and parcels in Dr. Michael Lamport Commons’s “Model of Hierarchical Complexity.” The model rates how complex a person (or a bacterium) is, compared […]
Tapas Bar is not a tapas bar, in Kolkata
The existence of a new physics research study is a reminder that Tapas Bar, the physics researcher who is listed as first author of the study, is not a tapas bar—though both Tapas Bar and at least one tapas bar are both in the city of Kolkata. (Thanks to Mason Porter for bringing this to our attention.)
The All-Meat Diet, Then and Now
The All-Meat Diet was fictional when it was the centerpiece of “The Atkins Diet Opera” in 2004. Now someone is promoting the All-Meat Diet as a real diet for real people to follow. That someone is Mikhaila Peterson. Stephanie Lee reports, in Buzzfeed: Mikhaila Peterson, 26, is now making money off a new kind of […]