Join us Saturday night, February 15, at the Improbable Research show at the AAAS Annual Meeting, Grand Hyatt Seattle, 71 Pine Street (in Princessa Ballrooms 1 & 2), The annual Improbable Research session will, this year, include: Marc Abrahams, founder of the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony Theresa McKeon, 2019 Ig Nobel Prize winner for using […]
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Seattle NerdNite talk on the Ig Nobel Prize, March 21st
If you will be in Seattle on March 21st then head to the High Dive bar in Fremont to hear Ig Nobel Co-Producer David Kessler give a NerdNite talk: “Onstage & Backstage at The Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony”. David will try to describe The Ig Nobel Prize and also some of the interesting people and […]
History of mystery pits
On April 15, 1954, Bellingham, Seattle and other Washington communities are in the grip of a strange phenomenon — tiny holes, pits, and dings have seemingly appeared in the windshields of cars at an unprecedented rate. Initially thought to be the work of vandals, the pitting rate grows so quickly that panicked residents soon suspect […]