Historical: Swordswallowing and herring farts in Denmark

Danish TV2‘s “Go’ Aften Danmark” program welcomed two Ig Nobel Prize winners for a live interview. In this historic recording, the program’s host interviews Ig Nobel Prize winners Dan Meyer (2007 prize in medicine for co-authoring the medical study “Swordswallowing and Its Side Effects”) and Magnus Wahlberg (2004 prize in biology for co-discovering that herrings apparently […]

The Dutch mountain problem

The rain in the Netherlands happens mainly on the plain. Everything in the Netherlands happens mainly on the plain, because the Netherlands is nothing but plain (in the geographical sense). Mathematicians, some of them, enjoy a large challenge. Thus this study: “Up and Beyond – Building a Mountain in the Netherlands,” Paulo J. De Andrade […]

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