Tidsskriftet, the Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association, published an article two years ago (on September 25, 2023) with the headline “Statistics lessons from a salmon“. That article is about the project that was honored with the 2012 Ig Nobel Prize for Neuroscience, “for demonstrating that brain researchers, by using complicated instruments and simple statistics, […]
Jimmy Liao, who was awarded the 2024 Ig Nobel Physics Prize, for for demonstrating and explaining the swimming abilities of a dead trout, did this TED Talk about some of his experience. It’s titled “What studying fish teaches me about human life”: His Ig-winning research studies are: “Neuromuscular Control of Trout Swimming in a Vortex […]
An inspired description from a veterinary tech who has just discovered Dead Duck Day: @h717p4r3 Dead duck day is celebrated to commemorate the billions of birds that collide with windows annually worldwide wide and to try to figure out a way to solve this problem. Kees Moeliker is the ornithologist who documented this case and […]
The Ig Nobel Prizes honor things so surprising that they make people LAUGH, then THINK. At the 2024 Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, ten new prizes were awarded. Two days later, most of the winners gathered, at the MIT Museum in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to ask each other questions. This was the 2024 Ig Nobel Face-to-Face event. […]