Here’s quasi-ancient, grainy, degraded video from the 1995 Ig Nobel Prize ceremony. The theme that year was DNA. Behold tributes to DNA, first from young Kate Eppers; then from Nobel Laureates Rich Roberts, Dudley Herschbach, Joseph Murray, Sheldon Glashow, and William Lipscomb reading a poem by Stanley Eigen (“DNA and Green Eggs and Ham”)… BONUS: […]
Ig Nobel Prizes on PBS NewsHour this Sunday
PBS NewsHour Weekend plans to broadcast a report about the Ig Nobel Prizes this Sunday, October 6, as the program’s final segment. Here’s some extra material that did not make it into NewsHour’s final edit: UPDATE: Here’s video of the broadcast.
Safety first! The no-handy man.
Today’s historical industrial safety poster is from Russia, part of a collection amassed by an admirer of this distinctive form of art:
In Lamentably-Successful Search of Rotten, Scammy Journals
Reader (when reading a study) and writer (when submitting a study for publication) beware — if the journal publishing (or offering to publish) that study is not known to you. Dan Vergano explains, in this National Geographic article: Fake Cancer Study Spotlights Bogus Science Journals A cancer drug discovered in a humble lichen, and ready […]