Here’s recorded video of last week’s event, the first in a collaborative series by The Conversation and Improbable Research. The goal in these: Two researchers, in different fields, explore each other’s worlds a little bit. “(Improbable) Conversation: Physics and Psychology of Cats“, with physicist (and Ig Nobel Prize winner, for exploring the question “Can a Cat Be […]
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The Wug Test and its inventor [video]
Nova did this short video piece about Jean Berko Gleason, the inventor of the Wug Test:
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. […]
The Wug Test and Its Creator
Jean Berko Gleason, known to some as the Welcome Welcome Lecturer at the Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, is known to even more — lots more — people as the creator of the Wug Test. The Secret Life of Scientists takes a look: