News about the Ig Nobel Prizes — honoring achievements that make people LAUGH, then THINK.
The 632nm bloggers came to the Ig Nobel Face-to-Face event at the MIT museum, two days after the 2025 Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, and interviewed some of the new winners. In this episode they talk with Julie Mannella and Gary Beauchamp, who were awarded the 2025 Ig Nobel Pediatrics Prize, for studying what a nursing baby […]
Tidsskriftet, the Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association, published an article two years ago (on September 25, 2023) with the headline “Statistics lessons from a salmon“. That article is about the project that was honored with the 2012 Ig Nobel Prize for Neuroscience, “for demonstrating that brain researchers, by using complicated instruments and simple statistics, […]
Julie Mennella, co-winner (with Gary Beauchamp) of the 2025 Ig Nobel Prize for Pediatrics, was interviewed by Kayla Yup of the Philadelphia Inquirer. The headline says: “The Philadelphia scientists who studied garlic-flavored breast milk won a 2025 Ig Nobel Prize — Mennella was one of two scientists at Monell Chemical Senses Center to win a […]
Several Ig Nobel Prize winners will gather in Paris, to discuss their work, with each other and with audiences. There will be special introductions by Eric Clement & Jean-Francois Joanny. Ig winner Roman Hossein Khonsari, who is doing much of the heavy lifting in organizing the affairs, gives this description: Paris is getting an Ig […]