Prizes of various sorts in Lund

Allen Morris sent these photos he took on a January 2023 visit to Lund University in Sweden. The university is home to many Ig Nobel Prize winners, for research on, among other things, cat communications, alligators in helium, chimpanzee/human mutual imitation, and dung beetle celestial navigation. Later in 2023, part of the story told in […]

Susanne Åkesson’s Ig Nobel horsefly triumph

Lund University produced this video celebrating the awarding of the 2016 Ig Nobel Prize for physics to Susanne Åkesson and her colleagues: The prize was awarded to Gábor Horváth, Miklós Blahó, György Kriska, Ramón Hegedüs, Balázs Gerics, Róbert Farkas, Susanne Åkesson, Péter Malik, and Hansruedi Wildermuth, for discovering why white-haired horses are the most horsefly-proof horses, and for […]

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