The coffee-centric web site Sprudge.com seems somewhere between baffled and bemused at the Ig Nobel audience reaction. They write: Ig Nobel Prize “Chemist In A Coffee Shop” Mini-Opera Baffling. We thought we knew nerds. But these nerds out-nerd the nerdiest nerds we’ve ever dreamed existed. These are opera singing nerds. These are nerds that throw paper […]
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“Vaginas should smell like vaginas”
Kate Clancy, an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois, writes (in her blog Context and Variation) about her Ig Nobel experience: Vaginas should smell like vaginas, not flowers: my 24/7 Ig Nobel talk By Kate Clancy Last Thursday, a number of dreams I didn’t even know I had were fulfilled: talking about vaginas […]
Taking advantage of promiscuous reactions
One of the highlights of the American Chemical Society’s meeting in Denver is this presentation by Milton R. Smith III [pictured here, at right] of Michigan State University; “Taking advantage of promiscuous reactions.” The photo below shows part of the sign board outside the ballroom in which this research was revealed to an eager public:
Chemistry [English, English and English Edition]
This book is billed to be specially for readers who prefer chemistry books in a special English, English and English edition or who at least know what a special English, English and English edition is (thanks to investigator Scott Langill for bringing it to our attention): BONUS: A movement disorders book in clinical practice, too, […]