The 24/7 Lectures are a long-running part of the Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony – a history long enough that there have now been exactly 100 of them! That’s 100 attempts by great thinkers to: give a complete, technical description of a topic in just 24 seconds; and then give a clear summary of a topic […]
This year’s 24/7 Lecturers are hard at work preparing their lectures for the 33rd First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony. These lectures — a complete technical description of a subject in 24 seconds, followed by a clear summary in seven words — demand more skill and thought than the audience may realize. Here is a […]
Since 2001, the Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony has included the 24/7 Lectures, in which some of the world’s top thinkers each explained a concept in two ways: First, a complete, technical description in 24 seconds, and then, a clear summary that anyone can understand in 7 words. Now all the 24/7 Lectures are collected, together in one place. You […]
A highlight from the 2009 Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony [AIR 15:6]: LECTURER: Deborah J. Anderson, Professor of Obstetrics/Gynecology and Microbiology at Boston University School of Medicine, and 2008 Ig Nobel Medicine Prize winner. TOPIC: Contraception. Complete technical description in TWENTY-FOUR (24) SECONDS: Reliable, reversible contraception. Women have pills, rings, patches, implants, sponges, IUDs, spermicides, diaphragms, […]