Lund University professor Marie Dacke discusses her famous research with dung beetles, and also how she became a biologist, her joy at working with colleagues, and what happened when she and her team won an Ig Nobel Prize — and what happened as a consequence of winning that prize. Dacke was interviewed in the The […]
De Kikker Kamasutra “The Frog Kamasutra” is a new book [in Dutch] of delights — about biological surprises — written by Ig Nobel Biology Prize winner Kees Moeliker. The ISBN is 9789044656855. Moeliker was awarded the 2003 Nobel Biology Prize, for documenting the first scientifically recorded case of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard duck. That […]
The Ig Nobel Prizes honor achievements that make people LAUGH, then THINK. In the Ig Informal Lectures, some days after the ceremony, the new Ig Nobel Prize winners attempt to explain what they did, and why they did it. We are releasing these lectures one at a time. The 2022 Ig Nobel Prize for Biology was […]
Bat Chat, the podcast produced by the Bat Conservation Trust, visited with Ig Nobel Prize winner Gareth Jones. The 2010 Ig Nobel Prize for Biology was awarded to Libiao Zhang, Min Tan, Guangjian Zhu, Jianping Ye, Tiyu Hong, Shanyi Zhou, and Shuyi Zhang of China, and Gareth Jones of the University of Bristol, UK, for […]