“Showered with paper airplanes, garlanded by admiring Nobel laureates, some of the world’s quirkiest scientists will be honoured at a sellout ceremony at Harvard University today. The 21st annual Ig Nobel Prizes, conferred by the Annals of Improbable Research (AIR), have become one of the most coveted prizes in science. Bringing neither personal riches nor offers […]
Month: September 2011
Watching the Ig Nobel webcast, in Oz
If you are in Australia, you might plan to watch the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony live webcast on the Australian Broadcasting Corp web site. The ABC has a preview, with video of one of Oz’s many past winners, and a descriptive listing of several others. Here’s the ABC’s partial list (these are just in science categories) of […]
Potentially revolutionary discoveries (7200 of them!)
We have identified more than 7200 discoveries that have the potential to revolutionize something or other that might* be important. *Might.
Dr. Nakamats, in Russian, at length
Nearly an hour of the Russian edition of the documentary film about 2005 Ig Nobel Prize winner Dr. Nakamats is online. Dr. Nakamats won his prize for having photographed and alylized every meal he consumed during a period of 34 years [a streak which he has since extended], which is but one of his many […]