Here’s video of the Ig Nobel show we did at Imperial College London on March 9, 2012. (Imperial College’s web site has a better quality video.). This year’s show featured Mason Porter, John Hoyland and Stevyn Colgan and Ig Nobel Prize winner Mirjam Tuk—with a special appearance by Professor Andrew George, who recited wretched poetry by […]
Tag: London
Steve Colgan’s insider’s peek at the Ig Nobel London events
Steve Colgan, one of the stars of the Ig Nobel UK Tour events in London and Teddington, prepared his insider’s look at both events and at some of the preparatory meetings. Full details, with lots of good photos are in his blog. Here are a few bits of it: The other reason for me visiting […]
Observational research: Penguins, proposal, London Zoo
A filmed marriage proposal in the London Zoo, witnessed by penguins and filmy-eyed tele-observers: [HT Ian Sample]
Tipu’s Tiger
Maggie Koerth-Baker, Boing-Boing’s ace science observer, is doing a series of essays about “My Favorite Museum Exhibit”. The Bishop of Durham’s rectum, on which we have spent an inordinate amount of time and space, because it has a curious back story, is there. (Well, actually, the Bishop’s bottom, what’s left of it, is in the […]