Rachel Varughese has joined the The Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists™ (LFHCfS). She says: I am a Paediatric Endocrinology resident and Welcome HARP PhD Fellow, based at Queen Mary University of London. My research work focuses on rare causes of pubertal failure, and the use of gonadotrophins as treatment. Rachel Varughese, MA, BM BCh, […]
Tidsskriftet, the Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association, published an article two years ago (on September 25, 2023) with the headline “Statistics lessons from a salmon“. That article is about the project that was honored with the 2012 Ig Nobel Prize for Neuroscience, “for demonstrating that brain researchers, by using complicated instruments and simple statistics, […]
Julie Mennella, co-winner (with Gary Beauchamp) of the 2025 Ig Nobel Prize for Pediatrics, was interviewed by Kayla Yup of the Philadelphia Inquirer. The headline says: “The Philadelphia scientists who studied garlic-flavored breast milk won a 2025 Ig Nobel Prize — Mennella was one of two scientists at Monell Chemical Senses Center to win a […]
Several Ig Nobel Prize winners will gather in Paris, to discuss their work, with each other and with audiences. There will be special introductions by Eric Clement & Jean-Francois Joanny. Ig winner Roman Hossein Khonsari, who is doing much of the heavy lifting in organizing the affairs, gives this description: Paris is getting an Ig […]