Ig Nobel tickets! A few Ig Nobel Prize ceremony tickets are available. (These are tickets we had been holding in reserve for emergency needs — and have now released for sale). They are available exclusively from the Harvard Box Office, online and at Holyoke Center.
The doc who gave out while giving sperm
“Details, please!” is the hope and plea of medical professionals everywhere, about a train of medical events reported to have happened in Wuhan, China. The hope is that the attending physicians involved in the case will publish a formal case report in a good-quality medical journal. The case, thus far, has been told only in the general […]
Spam dictionary (work in progress)
In 2003, a dictionary of Spam was created by Guy Di Mattina whilst studying at the School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, University of Queensland. “The first step” explains the author, “was to create a list of features that appeared in Spam or normal mail but not in both.” The results were published in […]
Physics and the new Ig Nobel opera (and pills, and lotsa microbes)
The Harvard Physics Department is, again this year, kindly letting us use their SciBox as rehearsal space for the new Ig Nobel mini-opera. This photo, by David Kessler, shows part of the cast, at the first full rehearsal. The opera, called “What’s Eating You“, will premiere as part of the 24th First Annual Ig Nobel […]