The Ig Nobel show at Imperial College London — the final event of the 2006 Ig Nobel Tour of the UK — happens tonight. Details are on the tour web page. NOTE: This event is already fully booked.
Joe Milton joins LFCHfS
Joe Milton has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists. He says: My name is Joe Milton and I am a PhD student at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, studying phylogenetics and population genetics in a group of southern African poisonous weeds, so I represent both evolutionary and environmental biology and botany, […]
Ig in London tonight
The Ig Nobel show at The Guardian Newsroom and Visitor Centre — the next-to-last event of the 2006 Ig Nobel Tour of the UK — happens tonight. (It’s already fully booked, but it you want to turn up at the door on the chance that someone with a reservation is waylaid or otherwise fails to […]
School pigeons
While some people revile pigeons, others admire and study the birds’ brainy behaviour. A team of Japanese scientists earned the 1995 Ig Nobel Prize in psychology by showing that pigeons can identify who painted a particular painting…. So begins this week’s Improbable Research column in The Guardian