The first-ever Ig Nobel Prize show in France happened this week. Here is a review by Media24 [machine-translated into English]. (Media24 also has podcast episode about this.) Soon after, the magazine Sciences et Avenir published a review. Later in the week, the wire service AFP interviewed some of the Ig people. For the first time […]
The 632nm bloggers came to the Ig Nobel Face-to-Face event at the MIT museum, two days after the 2025 Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, and interviewed some of the new winners. In this episode they talk with Julie Mannella and Gary Beauchamp, who were awarded the 2025 Ig Nobel Pediatrics Prize, for studying what a nursing baby […]
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, […]