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 […]
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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 […]
