Improbable Research

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February 18, 2012, Saturday, 7:00-9:00 pm	AAAS Annual Meeting, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Fairmont Waterfront Hotel, Mackenzie Room. — Annual Improbable Research show at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Featuring: Marc Abrahams, Improbable Research editor and founder of the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony John Senders of the University of Toronto, 2011 Ig Nobel public safety prize winner, will do two brief talks — one about his driving-on-a-highway-with-eyes-covered experiment, the other about an unpublished gunslinger experiment he did in 1956 Yoram Bauman, performing economist Ivan Oransky, co-founder of Retraction Watch, will describe the year’s most memorable and provocative retractions Sydney Fels of the University of British Columbia will demonstrate how computers can automatically turn a person’s gestures into speech and others to be announced. This event, unlike most of the AAAS Annual Meeting, is open free to the public. #AAASmtg
March 8-17, 2012	Ig Nobel Tour of the UK — This will be the tenth annual tour, in conjunction with the UK’s National Science Week. Events in: Leeds (Mar 8) London (Mar 9) Tickets available now. Teddington (Mar 9 — Improbable After Dark) Tickets available now. Bristol (Mar 14) Dundee (Mar 17) Tickets available now. Other events to be announced. For details see the UK Tour page.
March 17-18, 2012	Ig Nobel mini-Conclave, APOGEE Festival, BITS, Pilani, India. With Ig Noobel Prize winners: Kees Moeliker (homosexual necrophilia in ducks) Ilja van Beest (roller coasters as therapy for asthma) Elena Bodnar (emergency bra that converts into facemasks) Dan Meyer (swordswallowing and its side effects) Gauri Nanda (alarm clock that runs away and hides) John Senders [via video] (Driving with eyes covered) Richard Stephens (swearing relieves pain) Details to be announced.
March 23-28, 2012	Ig Nobel Scandinavia Tour — Shows in: Copenhagen (Friday, Mar 23) — Copenhagen University, Festsalen, Frue Plads, at 19.00-21.00 Stockholm (Saturday, Mar 24) Aarhus (Monday & Tuesday, Mar 26 & 27) — Aarhus University, Søauditorierne, 19.00-21.00 — TICKETS available online). Odense (Wednesday, Mar 28) — University of Southern Denmark, Odense, 19.00-21.00 Featuring (in slightly different combinations in each city: Marc Abr ahams, Improbable Research editor and founder of the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony Andrea Rapisarda: Ig Nobel Prize winner (Organizations would be more efficient if they promoted people at random) Sofia Dahl: Vocal pitch height and aggression Magnus Enquist: Ig Nobel Prize winner (Chickens prefer beautiful humans) Harald Moi: Ig Nobel Prize winner (Transmission of gonorrhea thruough an inflatable doll) Peter Kristensen: Alcohol intoxication through the feet Magnus Wahlberg: Ig Nobel Prize winner (herrings probably communicate by farting) Further details to be announced.
Wednesday, April 4, 2012, 4 pm	Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA — Nobel Laureate Dudley Herschbach delivers the Annual Ferguson Science Lecture: “Silly Serious Science: Homage to Ig Nobel and Ben Franklin“
Thursday, April 26, 2012	Voltage Coffee & Art, 295 3rd St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Improbable Research event for the Cambridge, Massachusetts, Science Festival — Time (probably early evening) and other details TBA.
June 26-29 2012	Ig Nobel Tour of the the Netherlands — Eindhoven (June 28). Other details TBA.
Thursday, September 20, 2012	The 22nd First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, Sanders Theatre, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA — Details TBA.
Saturday, September 22, 2012	Ig Informal Lectures, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA — Details TBA.

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