This week’s Feedback column (that I write) in New Scientist magazine has four segments. Here are bits of each of them: Lipstick in the brain — Lipstick interacts with the human brain mostly in indirect ways. Kazue Hirabayashi and colleagues have been modernising the search for some of those interactions. Their stated goal is to find “a […]
Today the Ig Nobel Face-to-Face event will happen. The new Ig Nobel Prize winners will ask each other quesitons about their work, on SATURDAY afternoon, SEPTEMBER 14, 2024, in three parts, each lasting 30-40 minutes, at the MIT Museum in Cambridge, Massachusetts. This drawing is by Becky Moon.
Tomorrow the Ig Nobel Face-to-Face event will happen. The new Ig Nobel Prize winners will ask each other quesitons about their work, on SATURDAY afternoon, SEPTEMBER 14, 2024, in three parts, each lasting 30 minutes or so, at the MIT Museum in Cambridge, Massachusetts. This drawing is by Becky Moon.
Ten new Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded at the 24th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, held at the Massachusetts Institute of technology. The photo you see here is the blackboard in MIT building 10, room 250— the venerable lecture hall where the ceremony happened. During the ceremony, artist Keira Lee Rice drew chalk-on-blackboard sketches […]