TICKETS for the 28th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony will go on sale exactly two weeks from today: on TUESDAY, JULY 10, 2018. Tickets will be available exclusively from the Harvard Box Office. BONUS: Who might you meet at the Ig?
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Who Might You Meet at the Ig? London’s Pioneering Theatrical Electrician
If you come to the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, you might enjoy chatting with your neighbors, in the audience. Many have done amazing things. In this video, Ann Crighton-Harris tells how she became the first woman to be a professional electrician in London’s theaters. Perhaps you sat near Ann Crighton-Harris in the audience at the […]
Skipping on the Moon – fun maybe, but is it efficient?
History has shown* that astronauts, or more accurately lunarnauts, often like to skip about when they’re on the Moon. But, fun though it might seem, is skipping (in reduced gravity situations) an efficient way to get around? Research teams from the Laboratory of Physiomechanics of Locomotion, Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation, University of Milan, Italy, […]
The Ig Nobel events, reported firsthand by a winning scientist
Dr. Marisa López-Teijón, leader of the team that won the 2017 Ig Nobel Obstetrics Prize — for showing that a developing human fetus responds more strongly to music that is played electromechanically inside the mother’s vagina than to music that is played electromechanically on the mother’s belly — describes what the team experienced during Ig Nobel week […]
Watch the 27th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony live!
UPDATE: Ten new Ig Nobel Prize winners were introduced at the 27th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, at Sanders Theater, Harvard University. This year’s theme was “UNCERTAINTY”. You can read some of the early press accounts. The ceremony was webcast. Here’s recorded video:
Ig Nobel Prize interview on the RT Network
Sophie Shevardnadze interviewed me about the Ig Nobel Prizes, on the RT network’s “Sophie & Co.” program. I had cut myself shaving, that morning, before traveling to the TV studio. In the video here, you can see me bleeding all over Russian TV for a half hour while discussing improbable research with Sophie:
Watch the 26th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony here!
The 26th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony happens today — Thursday, September 22, 2016. Watch the live webcast here. The broadcast will start at 5:40 PM US eastern time. The ceremony itself begins at 6:00 PM US Eastern Time. (Want to attend the ceremony in person, at Harvard University’s Sanders Theatre? Tickets have been sold out for a while […]
The Ig Nobel Prizes are a category on Jeopardy, for the 6th time
The television quiz show Jeopardy used the Ig Nobel Prizes as a category, in the program broadcast yesterday (June 1, 2016). This was the sixth time that the Igs have been a Jeopardy category (previous appearances were in 2005, 2006, 2008, 2010, and 2012). Here are the answers from last night:
Five Japanese extensive interviews with Ig Nobel winners
The magazine Tech Notes is conducting a series of extensive interviews with Japanese Ig Nobel Prize winners. Here are links to the first five interviews. All are in Japanese [we present here machine translations of the headlines]: The Ig Nobel Prize interview Laugh and Think [1st] research and Kitazatodai Mabuchi Mr. skin of banana and […]
Celebrating Norway’s Ig Nobel Prize winners, and others, too
The Schrödingers katt science TV program celebrated some of Norway’s Ig Nobel Prize winners — and several other Ig Nobel Prize winners, too. They also interviewed me. Click on the image below, to be whisked to the Schrödingers katt web site and watch the entire episode: The featured Norwegian winners include: The 2014 Ig Nobel Prize for arctic science, awarded to Eigil Reimers and Sindre […]