Tom Lum visited the 35th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, on behalf of Scientific American magazine. He met some unexpected people there (Julie Mannella and the other Ig Nobel winners, opera singers, Bill Kaelin, Mariette DiChristina,…) , then crafted this video report about the experience. Meanwhile, taking a more traditional approach, Chris Simms […]
The Foreign Press Center of Japan [FPCJ] televised this special preview [in both Japanese and English] of the Ig Nobel Prize events, and discusses their place in Japanese Society. The FPCJ’s accompanying announcement says: The FPCJ invited Prof. Kiyoshi Furusawa, Specially Appointed Associate Professor, Science Communication Office for Liberal Arts [SCOLA], College of Science, Rikkyo […]
CNRS, France’s venerable research organization, takes a cheery look at some of the many French scientists who have won Ig Nobel Prizes. Here are portions of the CNRS report [machine-translated into English]: Ig-Nobel: science seriously “ This is the prize I always wanted! ” says Daniel Bonn, a CNRS research director currently on secondment at the […]
The new children’s book Laugh and think! The Ig Nobel Prize Encyclopedia, by Kiyoshi Furusawa, will be published on December 26, 2024. It will be available on Amazon and elsewhere. The book is loaded with super-magnifico-excellento pictures and stories. Here is a sneak peek at one page (page 38): The book’s publisher, Holp Shuppan, describes […]