The 31st First Annual Ig® Nobel Prize ceremony happens Thursday, September 9, 2021, at 6 pm (US eastern time). Watch it right here. Alternatively, watch the Japanese webstream. [VIDEO NOTE, added September 12, 2021: YouTube’s notorious takedown algorithms sometimes block the ceremony recording that lives there. We have so far been unable to find a […]
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Podcast Episode #209: “Words for Food in Your Mouth”
Words for Food in Your Mouth, an Apple a Day, Eating the Shrew, an Epidemic of Penile Amputations, Reactions to Chicken Nuggets, Ig and Beyond, What Matters in NBA Games, Why Spaghetti, and What Your Gut Says Psychoanalytically. In episode #209, Marc Abrahams shows some unfamiliar research studies to Jean Berko Gleason, Chris Cotsapas, Kishore […]
2011 Ig Nobel Ceremony webcast tonight!
Tonight’s the 21st First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony. 1200 people will have the privilege of watching it live, in-person at Sanders Theatre, Harvard University. Many more will have the opportunity to watch it live on the internet. The webcast will be available here on Improbable.com, at the Improbable Research YouTube channel and at finer […]
Improbable Research Collection #128: The 2009 Ig Nobel Prize for Public Health
At the 2009 Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, Public Health Prize winner Dr. Elena Bodnar demonstrates her invention – a brassiere that, in an emergency, can be quickly converted into a pair of protective face masks, one for the brassiere wearer and one to be given to some needy bystander. She is assisted by Nobel laureates […]
Big-Banks/Big-Bang Opera preview
Big Banks and the Big Bang theory combine in these two new episodes (#122 and #121) of the Improbable Research TV series. These were filmed at an early rehearsal of “The Big Bank Opera”. The plot: Stylish bankers in a swanky Wall Street bar explain the explosive rise and fall of big banking and big […]
Improbable Research Collection #121
Here’s the new episode — #121, “Big Bank Opera Rehearsal, Act 1” — of the Improbable Research TV series. The episode depicts an early rehearsal of Act 1 of “The Big Bank Opera”, in which stylish bankers in a swanky Wall Street bar explain the explosive rise and fall of big banking and big bankers. […]
Ig winners comment on “Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus”
We asked three Ig Nobel Prize-winning experts on sea life to comment on the soon-to-be-released horror film “Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus.” [The image below will, if you click it, show a trailer for the film]. Charles Paxton (co-winner, 2002 Ig Nobel biology prize for the study “Courtship Behaviour of Ostriches Towards Humans Under Farming […]
When Ig winners came to Odense
Last week’s show at Syddansk Universitet in Odense—part of the first Ig Nobel Tour of Denmark—prompted this brief report by TV2. The video features two of the four Ig winners (one of whom, Magnus Wahlberg, of herring-fart fame, is based partly at the university) who were on the tour:
This Saturday: Improbable Research Cabaret
If you have any questions as to how or whether to use Coca-Cola for birth control, this is your chance to ask someone who really knows. [Update In Response To Questions From Several Individuals: No, Coca-Cola is not sponsoring this event.] This Saturday, May 2nd, will see the very first Improbable Research Cabaret, part of […]