The 24/7 Lectures are a long-running part of the Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony – a history long enough that there have now been exactly 100 of them! That’s 100 attempts by great thinkers to: give a complete, technical description of a topic in just 24 seconds; and then give a clear summary of a topic […]
The influence of the Ig Nobel Prize slowly seeps into academia — especially in techniques for piquing people’s curiosity and attention. Here’s a new, 2023 example. The Harvard Gazette, in a report headlined “The snappy book talk: ‘When does that happen in academia?’ ” tells of an innovative event: “Scholars had seven minutes to explain […]
Most of the new Ig Nobel Prize winners will give free public talks TODAY, at MIT (the Massachusetts Institute of Technology). It starts at 1:00 pm (US eastern time). Admission is free. But seating is limited, so you might want to arrive a bit early. The lectures will be webcast here at Improbable.com (see below) […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]