Improbable Research, in concert with our friends & colleagues at the Museum Of Bad Art (MOBA), is cooking up some events for libraries. If you work at a library that provides events for your community, may I hit you up for some advice? You can reach me at marc@improbablecom.wpcomstaging.com
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A book no mathematician can resist?
What mathematician could resist buying a copy of this book, after reading the bookseller’s description: Logics of Worlds is the long-awaited sequel to Alain Badiou’s much-heralded masterpiece, Being and Event. Tackling the questions that had been left open by Being and Event, and answering many of his critics in the process, Badiou supplements his pioneering treatment […]
A look back at Dutch Ig Nobel night 2013
De Nederlandse Ig Nobel Night (Dutch Ig Nobel Night) is an official satellite event of the annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony. Persons large and small, old and young, gather in a grand theater in Leiden to see live (1) performances by Ig Nobel Prize winners and outstandingly amusing Dutch scientists, and then to (2) view the actual […]
Vulture Day 2013
• This year’s International Vulture Awareness Day is set for September 7th. • More than 50 organisations across the globe will be participating in the event. • Full details available from VultureDay.org
Ig Nobel special ceremony tonight in Genoa
Tonight is Ig Nobel night at the Genoa Science Festival. The event starts at 9:00 pm. at the Ducal Palace. AIR editor Marc Abrahams will introduce several Ig Nobel Prize winners, and will present the prizes to several of the new winners (Italian winner Massimiliano Zampini and French winners Marie-Christine Cadiurges and Christel Joubert) who […]
Ig Nobel special ceremony in Genoa
A special Ig Nobel Prize ceremony will be held at the Festival della Scienza, in Genoa, Italy, on Friday night, October 24. It will begin at 9:00 pm, in the Sala del Maggior Consiglio of the Palazzo Ducale. Two 2008 Ig Nobel Prize-winning teams will receive their Ig Nobel Prizes. (Both teams were unable to […]