Here’s a video snippet from last year’s University of Dundee show on the Ig Nobel Tour of the UK. As the university describes it: The Dundee Ig Nobel Show in 2011 opened with a parade of animals from D’Arcy Thompson‘s personal collections. Also featuring a plate of peas (explained later), Prof. Sue Black and Principal […]
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Kansas is flatter than a pancake, even in Dundee
The study “Kansas is Flatter Than a Pancake“, described ever so briefly during the Ig Nobel show at the University of Dundee this past March (2011), seen in this video snippet:
Improbable TV: Tay Bridge Disaster recited on a train on the bridge
Here’s a new episode of the Improbable Research TV series. It’s the 4th of many episodes featuring the bad poetry of William Topaz McGonagall. (For no good reason at all, we are releasing this 4th episode before we release the 3rd episode.) William Topaz McGonagall, who died in 1902, is widely regarded as the worst poet […]
Sunday: Tay Bridge poem reading on the Train
Join us on Sunday morning, March 20 for a historic group reading — on a train crossing the Tay Bridge, perhaps the first time this has ever been accomplished — of William Topaz McGonagall’s most famous bad poem, The Tay Bridge Disaster, Here are the poem’s stirring opening lines: “Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv’ry […]
Ig Nobel & McGonagall 2nite in Dundee!
Tonight’s the night in Dundee! Three Ig Nobel Prize winners AND a revelation that is of absolutely no importance, but of great and goofy enjoyment to many in the English-speaking world. The revelation: Several poems by the bad poet William Topaz McGonagall — poems that have never been published in any book — will be […]
STV preview of McGonagall poem modern debut
The Scottish TV network STV produced a preview of the historic (and completely unimportant) event that will happen on Saturday evening, March 19 at the University of Dundee: The modern debut of poems by the wretched poet William Topaz McGonagall — poems that are not published in any book and that have not been performed […]
Overlooked McGonagall poems found!
There’s news about the bad poet William Topaz McGonagall. It’s of absolutely no importance, but of great and goofy enjoyment to many in the English-speaking world. Several poems that have never been published in any book will soon be recited in public [on March 19, at our show at the University of Dundee] for the […]
Poem for the Dundee Ig Nobel show
In tribute of a sort to tonight’s Ig Nobel show at the University of Dundee, not far from the Tay Bridge, here are the concluding lines of William McGonagall’s mortal poem “The Tay Bridge Disaster“: Oh! ill-fated Bridge of the Silv’ry Tay, I must now conclude my lay By telling the world fearlessly without the […]
Tickets for the show in Dundee
Tickets are now available online for the Ig Nobel show Saturday, 13th March at the University of Dundee. This will be the first show on the 2010 Ig Nobel Tour of the UK (the 8th annual!) for National Science & Engineering Week.