If you come to the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, you might enjoy chatting with your neighbors, in the audience. Many have done amazing things. In this video, Ann Crighton-Harris tells how she became the first woman to be a professional electrician in London’s theaters. Perhaps you sat near Ann Crighton-Harris in the audience at the […]
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Booing research
Hugh (Dr. House) Laurie, appearing on The Graham Norton Show (Series 9 Episode 4) explains that in Germany, the word (or sound) for ‘Boooo’ is, instead ‘Ooooh’. [from 1:00 onwards] The incident is backed up by academic research : “Until the nineteenth-century, there is no evidence of booing: hissing and whistling are generally preferred. Booing […]
Experiment of sorts in a movie theater
This ad shows what would be—or perhaps was?—a nice social science experiment: (HT Richard Wiseman)
The helpful roar of the cinema crowd
Noisy, chatty Indian cinema audiences extract more from their movies than audiences elsewhere. You might conclude that, if you go to an Indian cinema then read a study called The Active Audience: Spectatorship, Social Relations and the Experience of Cinema in India by Lakshmi Srinivas, published in 2002 in a journal called Media Culture and […]