The 2022 Heinz Oberhummer award, for “outstanding science communication”, was awarded to the Ig Nobel Prize on November 24, at the Stadtsaal in Vienna, Austria. The ceremony was webcast. Here’s recorded video of it:
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Ig Nobel winner / cockroach magnetizer is guest of honor at the Vienna Science Ball
The Ig Nobel cockroaches—Herbert Crepaz won the 2019 Ig Nobel prize in the category biology, honouring achievements that make people laugh, and then think. The Austrian quantum physicist, who works at the Centre for Quantum Technologies at the National University of Singapore, discovered that dead magnetized cockroaches behave differently than living magnetized cockroaches. Crepaz has […]
Improbable Research events: Vienna, Copenhagen, Gothenburg
Improbable Research events are on tap this week and next week in Austria, Denmark, and Sweden. Please join us, if you are in the neighborhood(s). November 7, 2019, Thursday, 5:00 pm Vienna BioCenter PhD Symposium, Vienna, AUSTRIA— Marc Abrahams will talk about the Ig Nobel Prizes and Improbable Research. November 13, 2019, Wednesday, 7:00 pm […]
A 24/7 lecture for the Vienna Ball of Sciences
The first Vienna Ball of Sciences, held last night, was a roaring success, with the more than 2500 (the tickets sold out quickly) scientists, friends, and admirers exhibiting both brownian motion and traditional Viennese-waltz motion in strolling, dancing, chatting, sipping and noshing their way through the elegant ballroom and reception chambers of Vienna’s city hall, from 8 […]
Improbable doings in Vienna this coming week
The organizers posted a sneak preview of the ‘sneak preview’ event at the University of Vienna on Thursday evening, January 29: Und hier die nächste Veranstaltung in unserem Rahmenprogramm: Als sneak preview zur Mitternachtseinlage wird Marc Abrahams am Donnerstag, den 29.1., eine seine sehr speziellen Vorlesungen an der Uni Wien halten; auch dies eine Premiere: es handelt sich […]
Join us, improbably, at the Vienna Science Ball on January 31
An invitation to you — yes, you! — from Vienna, Austria: Ladies and gentlemen, dear colleagues, For the first time, the City of Vienna is staging the Vienna Science Ball. On Saturday, 31 January 2015, Vienna’s City Hall will be turned into a festive venue for the city’s science and research community. In a city renown […]
Saturday: 15 minutes of duckiness in Vienna
This Saturday in Vienna, Austria, Kees (“The Duck Guy”) Moeliker will will elaborate on ‘Science communication with a laugh: Improbable Research and the Ig Nobel Prizes’. In no more than fifteen minutes, he will tell how and why he won the 2003 Ig Nobel biology prize, highlight the (new) 2008 Ig Nobel prize winners and […]