RAI-3’s Telecamere program interviewed the three random-promotion researchers. Here is the full, glorious interview, in Italian: The trio — Alessandro Pluchino, Andrea Rapisarda, and Cesare Garofalo of the University of Catania, Italy — were awarded the 2010 Ig Nobel Prize in management for demonstrating mathematically that organizations would become more efficient if they promoted people at random. Their published study (which they […]
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The wisdom of Ig Nobel winner Ron Popeil
Ron Popeil is being showered with new recognition. Mr. Popeil was awarded the 1993 Ig Nobel Prize in consumer engineering for redefining the industrial revolution with such devices as the Veg-O-Matic, the Pocket Fisherman, Mr. Microphone, and the Inside-the-Shell Egg Scrambler. [REFERENCE: “The Salesman of the Century : Inventing, Marketing, and Selling on TV: How I Did It and How […]
Ig folk: Language explorers on “Planet Word”
The BBC television program “Planet Word“, hosted by Stephen Fry, has featured interviews and demonstrations with at least two prominent Ig Nobel people. Richard Stephens, 2010 Ig Nobel Prize peace prize winner for confirming the widely held belief that swearing relieves pain, demonstrates his work, assisted by Stephen Fry and actor Brian Blessed, on episode 3. […]
Further TV news reports about the Ig Nobel winners
Here are a few more reports [click on the images to see the videos]. Baominhua [China]: La Presse [Italy]: In Vietnam: Districte 8 [Catalonia] In Taiwan:
Further TV news roundup of Ig Nobel reports
Here are a few more TV reports about this year’s Igs. NewsyScience (a roundup): Tin Tuc TV: Euronews [German] or if you prefer, French or Portuguese or English or Italian or Persian: Dire Giovanni [starts around the 1:10 mark]: KPRU: La Repubblica TV: Tiscali / ANSA: International Business Times:
The relative passage of time: a TV interview
Investigator Francie DuBose alerted us to this TV news interview. The interview segment is called “Higher Learning.” Peter Kerwin, a Rhode Island education official, is delightedly telling the interviewer about some of the new Ig Nobel Prize winners. The interviewer may have been slightly misinformed beforehand about the basic topic, and may have been focusing her […]
Ig Nobel Prizes on QI (with Stephen Fry & testicles)
The QI [which stands for “Quite Interesting] quiz program (hosted by Stephen Fry, broadcast on the BBC), featured the Ig Nobel Prizes. This new QI episode [see below] also featured a visit from Chris McManus of University College London. Professor McManus was awarded the 2002 Ig Nobel Prize in biology for his study called “Scrotal Asymmetry in Man and in Ancient Sculpture“, published […]
Concept <=> “TV as Lover”
How can one “… engage with television in an ecstatic mode” ? Brian Ott, visiting professor of media and rhetorical studies at the University of Colorado, Denver, explains how recourse to the Lacanian concept of Jouissance (“a radically disruptive pleasure, which momentarily dissolves the socially constructed subject, thereby evading ideology”) can be called on to […]
Ig Nobel Prizes on Jeopardy
The Ig Nobel Prizes were a category yesterday on the game show Jeopardy. This is the fourth time the Igs have been so honored. (Thanks to investigator Nancy Lent for bringing this to our attention.)
TV: Inside the operating room: Live!
Paul Raeburn writes, in the Knight Science Journalism Tracker: It’s gripping TV, there’s no question about it. The Today Show, with its new medical correspondent, Dr. Nancy Snyderman, launched a week-long series Monday showing patients undergoing surgical procedures live on television. In the first episode, Dr. Nancy (as [Today Show host] Meredith Viera calls her; […]