Sarah Zhang writes, in Gizmodo, about how “The ‘Harvard Sentences’ Secretly Shaped the Development of Audio Tech“: During World War II, the boiler room under Harvard’s Memorial Hall was turned into a secretive wartime research lab. Here, volunteers were subjected to hours of noise as scientists tested military communications systems. Out of this came the […]
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The physics space of opera rehearsal
A big Thank You to the Harvard Physics Department for again letting us use the SciBox for rehearsals of a new Ig Nobel mini-opera. This photo was taken by David Kessler: The opera will premiere this Thursday night, Sept 17, as part of the Twenty-Fifth 1st Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, at Sanders Theatre. The entire […]
Teaser for the 23rd first annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony
Daniel Rosenberg, Al Crockett, and David Kessler made this twerk-allusive teaser for the 23rd First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony: Daniel and Al made a teaser last year, too:
How to cater a Roman Orgy
When someone hires you to cater for a Roman orgy, explains Corky White, you should visit a library. That’s what she did, one day in the late 1970s, when a Harvard professor asked her to provide the food for an intimate gathering at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. White is now an anthropology professor at […]