Research — on any and all subjects — that makes people LAUGH, then THINK.
One way to make it big in physics is to make pasta. Physics Magazine interviewed the Italian physicists who did exactly that — and consequently won the 2025 Ig Nobel Prize for physics. Here is the beginning of that interview (read the whole interview at the Physics Magazine web site): Pasta Physics Scoops Up an Ig Nobel […]
Ten Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded tonight, September 18, 2025, at the 35th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony. Each winner has done something that makes people LAUGH, then THINK. News reports and photos (the one you see here — a Reuters photo of the audience throwing paper planes) are swirling everywhere. (NOTE: This year’s […]
A human can estimate how much a particular pig weighs by simply looking at the pig. The accuracy of that prediction is said to improve if the human uses augmented reality glasses of the type described in this study: “Pig Weight Prediction System Using RGB‑D Sensor and AR Glasses: Analysis Method with Free Camera Capture […]
The Foreign Press Center of Japan [FPCJ] televised this special preview [in both Japanese and English] of the Ig Nobel Prize events, and discusses their place in Japanese Society. The FPCJ’s accompanying announcement says: The FPCJ invited Prof. Kiyoshi Furusawa, Specially Appointed Associate Professor, Science Communication Office for Liberal Arts [SCOLA], College of Science, Rikkyo […]