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 […]
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Story of a cute robot
The story of Boxie, the designed-to-be-cute, wandering, info-gathering robot at MIT: Perhaps Boxie will come to the Ig Informal Lectures at MIT, perhaps…. BONUS: A not-so-cute robot at MIT
Walter Lewin draws some lines
This video compilation shows MIT physics professor Walter Lewin (who once did star turn at the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, on a different matter) drawing lines: BONUS: Much more, from the MIT archives
Bees, explosively in translation and back
Investigator Daniel Heller [pictured here] alerts us to something peculiar that pertains to a soon-to-be-published study he co-authored. The study is “Peptide secondary structure modulates single-walled carbon nanotube fluorescence as a chaperone sensor for nitroaromatics“, PNAS 2011 : 1005512108v1-6. Heller writes: “[Someone] seems to have translated an online post about our article into a foreign language and […]