A book just published in Thailand is a translation (into Thai, from Japanese) of Ranai Kuga’s book (ISBN 978-4484082226) about the Ig Nobel Prizes. (We have heard of Kuga’s book, but have not actually seen a copy.) Here’s a rough machine-translation of a review of the newly published book (ISBN 9789744434371): Perhaps crazy idea to […]
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Computer beats a top human in Japanese chess
Investigator Shoichi Fukayama alerts us to news in the ongoing battle between humans and computers. Reports from Japan say that for the first time a computer has defeated a top-rank shogi player. Shogi is a game related to chess, and believed by many players to be of greater difficulty. A network of 169 computers bested […]
“The Elements”, Lehrerized & Grayed in Japanese
Theo Gray and Tom Lehrer collaborated to produce this video of a Japanese version of Tom’s masterpiece song The Elements. Theo Gray was awarded the 2002 Ig Nobel Prize in chemistry for gathering many elements of the periodic table, and assembling them into the form of a four-legged periodic table table. Tom Lehrer is Tom […]