The 20th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony happens tonight at Sanders Theatre, Harvard University.
If you attend the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony tonight, or watch the live webcast, you might well wonder “Who are all those people?” We’ve put most of them (or at least their photos and descriptions) on an Ig ceremony who’s who web page. The new Ig Nobel Prize winners are of course a secret until the ceremony begins.
Wrapping up our celebration of Pot Week, here’s a singular pot study.
“Keeping an Eye on Your Pots: The Provenance of Neolithic Ceramics from the Cave of the Cyclops, Youra, Greece,” Patrick Quinn, Peter Day, Vassilis Kilikoglou, Edward Faber, Stella Katsarou-Tzeveleki, Adamantios Sampson, Journal of Archaeological Science, Volume 37, Issue 5, May 2010, Pages 1042-1052, (Thanks to investigator Tom Gill for bringing this to our attention.) The authors, at various institutions in Greece and in the UK, report:
“Combined petrographic and chemical analysis of MN and LN ceramics from the Cave of the Cyclops on the island of Youra, Greece, has revealed a compositionally diverse assemblage with a
Click to continue reading “Cyclops — Keeping an Eye on Pots”
The Boston Herald became the first press organization to report on Dr. Elena Bodnar’s new invention — the counterpart device for men of Ig Nobel Prize-winning earlier invention, the brassiere-that-in-an-emergency-converts-into-a-pair-of-protective-face-masks. The new invention is a men’s dress shirt that, in an emergency, can be quickly converted into a single protective facemask.
Dr. Bodnar publicly unveiled the rough prototype at her press conference at The MIT Museum.
The September issue of mini-AIR just went out. Topics include: Skunk and Canyon; Dr. Bodner’s Bra, and Her Male Counterpart Device; Confused Investors Conspicuously; Medieval-Scenes-of-Ritual-Circumcision Poet; Of Bactria, Not Bacteria; etc.
Mel [pictured here] says, “It’s swell.”
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Elena Bodnar
Glenda Browne
Deepak Chopra
Theodore Gray
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Karl Kruszelnicki
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Geoffrey Miller
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