The Duck Guy is Knighted in The Netherlands

This year’s Dead Duck Day celebration was spectacular in multiple ways. Maybe most spectacular, after the traditional commemoration of the incident that led to ornithologist Kees Moeliker’s eye-opening and Ig Nobel Prize-winning scientific paper “The First Case of Homosexual Necrophilia in the Mallard“, was the arrival of Rotterdam’s deputy mayor bearing a message and a […]

A knighthood for Geim—he of frogs, magnets & pencils

The man [pictured here] who was awarded an Ig Nobel Prize for using magnets to levitate a frog (a feat he accomplished together with a man who already had a knighthood) and then ten years later was awarded a Nobel Prize for having used scotch tape to tease graphene layers from a pencil, has now been […]

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