The Ig Nobel Japan Tour continues. Today (Sunday, September 23) there will be two events at Miraikan (National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation). The first, talk and questions and answers with Marc Abrahams, will be at 15:30. The second event will be webcast at 17:30-19:00 (Tokyo time). Marc will participate in other special Ig Nobel activities in Tokyo, Sapporo, […]
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The Ig Nobel Japan Tour — September 20-28
Please join us for any or all of the Ig Nobel events in Japan: Ig Nobel Japan Tour September 20, Thursday—Nerd Nite Tokyo, Nagatacho GRID, Tokyo, Japan.— A very jet-lagged Marc Abrahams will discuss the Ig Nobel Prizes. September 21, Friday— Special Pre-Show Press Opening of the Ig Nobel Exhibition—AaMo Gallery at the Tokyo Dome, Tokyo, Japan. —Marc Abrahams and several Ig Nobel Prize […]
Announcing the 2018 Ig Nobel Prizes winners
The 2018 Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded at the 28th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, on Thursday, September 13, 2018, at Harvard’s Sanders Theatre. The ceremony was webcast. Here’s video of the entire ceremony, and a list of the winners: [Youtube]GQqZVthHyuA[/youtube] For links to the prize-winning studies, see the list of all past (and new!) Ig […]
An animated look back at the 2016 Ig Nobel Prize winners
PanSci, in Taiwan, produced this video animation report about the 2016 Ig Nobel Prize winners and that year’s ceremony: This Year’s Ceremony The 2018 Ig Nobel Prize ceremony—the 28th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony—will happen on Thursday evening, September 13, 2018. A limited number of tickets are still available. And yes, eight-year-old Miss Sweetie Poo […]
Ig Nobel TICKETS will go on sale 2 weeks from today
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?
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: