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Ig Nobel EuroTour — shows in the UK, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark, and other countries.

• March 9, Friday, 6:00 pm— Imperial College London, UK—in the Sherfield Building at the South Kensington Campus, in the Great Hall. With:
  • Marc Abrahams, founder of the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony
  • Charles Foster — Ig Nobel Biology Prize winner (living in the wild as, at different times, a badger, an otter, a deer, a fox, and a bird)
  • Matteo Martini, Ig Nobel Cognition Prize winner (demonstrating that many identical twins cannot tell themselves apart visually)
  • Tom Williamson (creator of the web site WisdomofChopra, which contributed to the Ig Nobel Prize winning study “On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit“)
  • Marc-Antoine Fardin — Ig Nobel Physics Prize winner (using fluid dynamics to probe the question “Can a Cat Be Both a Solid and a Liquid?”)
  • With a special restrained guest appearance by Stevyn Colgan
• March 16, Friday—Sacré Coeur Pressbaum, Vienna, Austria.—Private event.
• March 19, Monday, 1:00 pm—Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany. In the Communications Center.—Marc Abrahams will discuss the Ig Nobel Prizes. Russ Hodge will present “The Evolution of Pizza”. Open to the public.
• March 21, Wednesday, 2:00 pm—Paul-Ehrlich Institute, Langen, Germany, in Axon 1 at the MDC.C Conference Center—Marc Abrahams and Russ Hodge. Open to the public.
• March 22, Thursday, 8:00 PM—DAI [German-American Institute], Sofienstraße 12, Heidelberg, Germany.—Marc Abrahams and Russ Hodge. Open to the public. [TICKET INFO]
• March 24, Saturday, Paris, France. Details TBA.
• March 27, Tuesday, 6:00 pm—EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, with:
  • Marc Abrahams
  • Milo Puhan and Alex Suarez, Ig Nobel Peace Prize winners (using a didgeridoo to treat obstructive sleep apnoea and snoring)
  • Nadia Dominici, Ig Nobel Physics Prize winner (some people would be physically capable of running across the surface of a pond — if those people and that pond were on the moon.)
  • Kees Moeliker, Ig Nobel Biology Prize winner (homosexual necrophilia in the mallard duck)
• April 2, Tuesday—Barcelona, Spain. Details TBA.
• April 5, Thursday, 3:00 pm—Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden—Berzelius väg 3, in Lecture hall Retzius. Free admission, open to the general public. With:
  • Marc-Antoine Fardin, Ig Nobel Physics Prize winner (can a cat be both a solid and a liquid?)
  • Álex García-Faura and Marisa López-Tejón, Ig Nobel Obstetrics Prize winners (effects of intra-vaginally played music on developing fetuses)
  • Bruno Verschuere, Ig Nobel Psychology Prize winner (asking a thousand liars how often they lie, and deciding whether to believe those answer)
• April 6, Friday, 12:30 pm—Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden—in Studenthuset, Galleriet. Free admission, open to the public. With:
  • Marc-Antoine Fardin
  • Álex García-Faura and Marisa López-Tejón
  • Bruno Verschuere
• April 10, Tuesday, 7:00 pm—University of Aarhus, Denmark— and livestreamed to many other meeting places in Denmark. With:
  • Marc-Antoine Fardin
  • Álex García-Faura and Marisa López-Tejón
  • Minna Lyons, Ig Nobel Psychology Prize winner (comparison of psychopathic traits in night owls versus early risers)
• April 11, Wednesday, 4:00 pm—Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby. With:
  • Marc-Antoine Fardin
  • Álex García-Faura and Marisa López-Tejón
  • Minna Lyons

Other events and details TBA.