SATURDAY: The 2017 Ig Informal Lectures, at MIT

The Ig Informal Lectures Saturday, Sept 15, 2018, 1:00 pm. MIT, building 10, room 250 — 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, Planet Earth. You are invited. It’s free, no tickets needed. Come early to assure a seat. A half-afternoon of improbably funny, informative, informal, brief public lectures and demonstrations: The new Ig Nobel Prize winners  have each […]

Saturday: The Ig Informal Lectures, at MIT

The Ig Informal Lectures Saturday, Sep 19, 2015, 1:00 pm MIT, building 10, room 250 A half-afternoon of improbably funny, informative, informal, brief public lectures and demonstrations: The new, 2015 Ig Nobel Prize winners will attempt to explain what they did, and why they did it Special appearance by past Ig Nobel Prize winners — including […]

Remembrance of lectures past

I once heard somebody describe the lecture method as a process whereby the lecture notes of the instructor get transferred to the notebooks of the students without passing through the brains of either. That is essentially what is happening in classrooms around the globe. So writes Eric Mazur in “Farewell, Lecture?” Science, January 2, 2009, […]