This year’s 24/7 Lecturers are hard at work preparing their lectures for the 33rd First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony. These lectures — a complete technical description of a subject in 24 seconds, followed by a clear summary in seven words — demand more skill and thought than the audience may realize. Here is a […]
Here is the Ig Informal Lecture by the winners of the 2020 Ig Nobel Economics Prize. The Ig Nobel Prizes honor achievements that make people LAUGH, then THINK. In the Ig Informal Lectures, some days after the ceremony, the new Ig Nobel Prize winners attempt to explain what they did, and why they did it. […]
Of the many ways to lecture, the Burton Klein way is especially filled with facts and spellings and efficient delivery thereof. Ingest, if you will, this video of Burton Klein lecturing on the topic “Potpourri.” Count the facts. Count the spellings of words. Count yourself lucky for being exposed to Burton Klein lecturing on the […]
Eric Lander delivered one of the early 24/7 Lectures. A 24/7 Lecture is a lecture in two parts: first a complete technical description in 24 seconds, second a simple description anyone can understand in 7 words. At the 2003 Ig Nobel Ceremony, Professor Lander spoke on the topic: THE HUMAN GENOME. His seven-word summary has become a classic […]
Dany Adams delivered one of the very first 24/7 Lectures. A 24/7 Lecture is a lecture in two parts: first a complete technical description in 24 seconds; then, a simple description anyone can understand in 7 words. At the 2001 Ig Nobel Ceremony, Professor Adams spoke on the topic: BIOLOGY. Her seven-word summary has become a classic definition of […]
2012 Ig Nobel Physics Prize co-winner Patrick Warren, of Unilever, will give a special lecture at Leeds on November 19. Here are details, from the University of Leeds and the Institute of Physics: Come along to an Institute of Physics public lecture at the University of Leeds! Learn about PONYTAIL PHYSICS: – how to use physics […]
Reto Schneider, curator of the WeirdExperiments.com web site (and Reto is also Improbable Research’s Swiss Desk Chief), has made a happy discovery. Full details are on his site. Here’s how he begins the tale: Several years ago when I first wrote about the famous Dr Fox lecture I thought the original footage was lost forever. […]