The Norwegian Consumer Council made this lovely short video about enshittifcation, the practice of making products and services crappier than they should or need be. It’s called “The Life of Death and the Ensh*ttificator” and also called “Killing Things”. Update: Thanks to Lauren Maurer for alerting us to a predecessor video called “A Day in […]
At the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony (and at the related event, Ig Nobel Face-to-Face, two days later), the audience is part of the show. Some people come from distant towns, states, countries and continents. Every year Briget and Chris Hart journey from Florida to Massachusetts to be in the audience at the Ig. This year […]
We invite you (together with as large a group as you can muster) to throw paper planes at the 34th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, to honor the new Ig Nobel Prize winners. This year we will be blending our two paper-airplane-throwing traditions: If you are coming to the 2024 Ig Nobel Prize ceremony […]
This is a rare music video about using a diamond cutting disk to cut an entrapped metal penile ring. The music is Mozart’s piano concerto no. 21 in C major. The medical procedure is described in the study “Cutting of Entrapped Metal Penile Ring With Diamond Cutting Disk,” Brian Stork and Ehab Eltahawy, JU Open, […]