Please join us on Friday, November 14, 2023, for this year’s Science Friday day-after-Thanksgiving Ig Nobel Prize special broadcast. To many people, the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony — each year honoring ten things that make people LAUGH then THINK — is an annual radio event, surprising stuff and people that pour out of the radio […]
The 29th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony will be broadcast on the Science Friday program this Friday, November 29th, 2019, in a specially-edited, recorded one-hour highlights version. This photo shows a moment in the ceremony: Medical education prize winners Karen Pryor and Theresa McKeon receive their Ig Nobel Prize, handed to them by Nobel […]
The 28th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony will be broadcast on the Science Friday program this Friday, November 23rd, 2018, in a specially-edited, recorded one-hour highlights version. This continues the day-after-Thanksgiving tradition—now in its 27th year—for Science Friday’s special coverage of the ceremony. In most parts of the USA, it will be the first hour […]
Veterinary surgeons offer their insight to anyone who plans to cook a Christmas (or Thanksgiving or other) turkey. Details are in this new study: “Investigation of the best suture pattern to close a stuffed Christmas turkey,” D. Verwilghen, V. Busoni, G. van Galen, M. Wilke, vol. 169, no. 26, Veterinary Record, 2011 pp. 685-6. The authors, […]