Please join us for any or all of the Ig Nobel events in Japan: Ig Nobel Japan Tour September 20, Thursday—Nerd Nite Tokyo, Nagatacho GRID, Tokyo, Japan.— A very jet-lagged Marc Abrahams will discuss the Ig Nobel Prizes. September 21, Friday— Special Pre-Show Press Opening of the Ig Nobel Exhibition—AaMo Gallery at the Tokyo Dome, Tokyo, Japan. —Marc Abrahams and several Ig Nobel Prize […]
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A shortest-possible walking tour through the pubs of the UK
A shortest-possible walking tour through the pubs of the United Kingdom — that’s an advanced form of the mathematicians’ favorite, The Traveling Salesman Problem. William Cook and colleagues at the University of Waterloo tackled this nastily complex problem: Nearly everyone in the UK knows by heart the best path to take them over to their favorite public house. […]
The 2014 Ig Nobel tour of Europe
A bevy of Ig Nobel Prize winners — scientists who have done things that make people LAUGH, then THINK — will strut their stuff in the 2014 Ig Nobel tour of Europe. It happens March 14—April 2. Here’s a quick list of events: Fri, March 14 …. LONDON, Imperial College. Mon, March 17 …. COVENTRY, […]
When Ig winners came to Odense
Last week’s show at Syddansk Universitet in Odense—part of the first Ig Nobel Tour of Denmark—prompted this brief report by TV2. The video features two of the four Ig winners (one of whom, Magnus Wahlberg, of herring-fart fame, is based partly at the university) who were on the tour:
Aarhus, then Odense
This is a photo Kees (the duck guy) Moeliker took from onstage during the Aarhus show tonight — first show on the Ig Nobel Tour of Denmark. This room was packed full with 450 spectators; more watched via video in another room. (And this is a newspaper preview of the Aarhus show.) The video monitors […]