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.)
Tag: TV
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; […]
Big-Banks/Big-Bang Opera preview
Big Banks and the Big Bang theory combine in these two new episodes (#122 and #121) of the Improbable Research TV series. These were filmed at an early rehearsal of “The Big Bank Opera”. The plot: Stylish bankers in a swanky Wall Street bar explain the explosive rise and fall of big banking and big […]
Potato chip crispness experiment to be repeated
The perception-of-the-apparent-freshness-of-a-single-potato-chip-when-the-sound-of-that chip-being-chewed-is-electronicaly-modified experiment that resulted in the 2008 Ig Nobel Prize for nutrition will be repeated tomorrow, Sunday, May 3, 2009, on Italian television by Max Zampini, one of the Ig Nobel Prize-winning scientists, according to a May 2 report by Wall Street Italia: Ad aiutare i quattro conduttori ci saranno anche i ricercatori […]