“Who are the Ig Nobel Prize Winners? The Ig Nobel Prize looks like a mockery, but it makes you think” begins Zoran Radovanović’s lovely essay (in Serbian) published in Velike Priçe.
Ig Nobel Face-to-Face in Tokyo on November 17
The 2024 Ig Nobel Prizes celebration will take further flight in a flurry of paper airplanes at the Miraikan science Museum in Tokyo, Japan, on Sunday, November 17, 2024. This will be an Ig Nobel Face-to-Face event, a counterpart to the Face-to-Face event that happened at the MIT Museum in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA two days […]
Phrases of philosophers: Logical Copulation
Philosophers see meaning in places and things that some people who are not philosophers may not have noticed. Philosopher George Englebretson sees a concept that many people had not noticed: the concept of “logical copulation. Englebretson describes it on page 5 of his book Something to Reckon with: the Logic of Terms, published by University […]
The importance of the hat on a cat in a hat
This photo of a cat in a hat is an important part of why some people expect a good deal of media attention for this study: “Non-invasive electroencephalography in awake cats: Feasibility and application to sensory processing in chronic pain,” Aliénor Delsart, Aude Castel, Guillaume Dumas,Colombe Otis, Mathieu Lachance, Maude Barbeau-Grégoire, Bertrand Lussier, Franck Péron, […]