News about the Ig Nobel Prizes — honoring achievements that make people LAUGH, then THINK.
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 […]
It’s complicated and yet it’s simple. A person called average_joe_mcc made this video in which he explains the Ig Nobel Prizes by holding his smartphone in one hand, focusing the phone’s camera on his computer screen and on the fingers of his other hand, as he reads aloud the words that are on the computer […]
There is almost a sweetness to the title of this study, almost: “Epidemiology of Reindeer Parasites,” Odd Halvorsen, Parasitology Today, vol. 2, no. 12, 1986, pp. 334-339. (Thanks to Sip Siperstein for bringing this to our attention.) The author says: “Every Christmas we sing about Rudolph the red-nosed Reindeer, but do we give much thought […]
The Vienna Science Ball announces: The 11th Vienna Ball of Sciences, to be held on January 24, 2026, at Vienna City Hall, was virtually sold out after just five days. As a special Christmas present, the organizing committee is releasing a final batch of 150 tickets in the online shop. Participation in the accompanying program […]