News about the Ig Nobel Prizes — honoring achievements that make people LAUGH, then THINK.
“Chickens Prefer Beautiful Humans“, according to the title of the research study by Stefano Ghirlanda, Liselotte Jansson, and Magnus Enquist of Stockholm University, honored by the 2003 Ig Nobel Prize for Interdisciplinary Research. That study was published in the journal Human Nature (vol. 13, no. 3, 2002, pp. 383-9.) Twenty-three years later, a Reuters video news […]
Alan Alda and Marc Abrahams chatted about the Ig Nobel Prizes and improbable research and much more, on the Clear + Vivid with Alan Alda podcast. The general theme of it all was “laugh then think”.
Some of the researchers who investigated the physics of why some wombats have cube-shaped poo [and who subsequently won a prize for having done that] have been pursuing the related question of “why”. The University of Georgia broadcast news of how they are faring: New study finds square feces may deliver information Most people have […]
There’s another new episode of the TV adventure documentary series about Japanese Ig Nobel Prize winners, produced by the NHK network. This one is called “Rendering People Speechless.” The series is called “Laugh Then Think — Japan’s Offbeat Science”. The episodes are watchable online, each for a year after its first broadcast. They are also […]