A video from TEDx Goteborg, with this description; How can herring farts in the Stockholm archipelago almost lead to a diplomatic crisis? Or a bra be converted into a gas mask in case of emergency? To Magnus Wahlberg this is everyday stuff, and proof that science doesn’t have to be dull to be important. He […]
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Thursday: Whales & herring farts in Copenhagen
A special event in Copenhagen on Thursday, October 13, 7:00-9:00 pm, HCØ (Auditorium 4), Universitetsparken 5, 2100 København Ø: Magnus Wahlberg, Ig Nobel Prize winner, Improbable Research’s Scandinavian Desk Chief, and Head of Research and Outreach, Adjunct Professor at Fjord & Bælt and University of Southern Denmark, will talk about whales and dolphins, which he is currently […]
Giant herring news & implications
The headline in the Christian Science Monitor, similar to headlines elsewhere, reads: “Enormous 12-foot giant herring found off coast of Sweden“. The news is of special interest to Swedish scientists Magnus Wahlberg and Hakan Westerberg, who shared a 2004 Ig Nobel Prize with another team for showing that herrings apparently communicate by farting.