Tickets for the Twenty-First 1st Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony will go on sale TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2011, at noon. Unlike previous years, ALL the tickets will go on sale at once. We expect that this year’s tickets will (as usual) get snapped up very quickly. The Harvard Box Office handles all ticket sales. Tickets in Person: The […]
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Korean edition of Ig Nobel book
The Korean edition of the Ig Nobel Prizes book has just been published (ISBN : 978-89-522-1501-7-0340). Spread the word, please!
Jason Webley on the origin of bacteria
Jason Webley explains why and how he wrote the song “Bacteria” during the tech rehearsal for last year’s Ig Nobel Prize ceremony. He and Amanda Palmer, who when conjoined form the supergroup Evelyn Evelyn, premiered the song as part of the 201o Ig Nobel Prize ceremony. This video was taken at Jason’s recent solo show […]
Bijan, DNA Cologne creator & Ig Nobel winner, dies
Bijan Pakzad, winner of the 1995 Ig Nobel Prize in chemistry, has died. Bijan (as both he and his company were best known) was awarded the prize for creating DNA Cologne and DNA Perfume, neither of which contain deoxyribonucleic acid, and both of which come in a triple helix bottle. The Persian Independent reports: Born […]