Upcoming Events

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August 20, 2018, Monday, 10:00 am. Improbable Research Table Talk—Toscanini’s Ice Cream, 159 First St., Cambridge, MA, USA. [Part of  a new series of events] A cozy, brief talk about a research study that makes people laugh, then think. With Marc Abrahams and Gus Rancatore. At this session we will talk about the Ig Nobel Prize-winning study “Did the Emperor of Morocco Really Father 888 Children?” Free. All welcome.
August 27, 2018, Monday, 10:00 am. Improbable Research Table Talk—Toscanini’s Ice Cream, 159 First St., Cambridge, MA, USA. [Part of  a new series of events] A cozy, brief talk about a research study that makes people laugh, then think. With Marc Abrahams and Gus Rancatore. At this session we will talk about the Ig Nobel Prize-winning study “On the Reception and Detection of Pseudo-Profound Bullshit.” Free. All welcome.
August 31, 2018, Friday, Time TBA. Improbable Research Table Talk—Arlington, MA, USA— and livecast on Facebook. [Part of  a new series of events] A cozy, brief talk about a research study that makes people laugh, then think. With Marc Abrahams and Deborah Henson-Conant. At this session we will talk about the study “Electrocortical Activity in a Pianist Playing ‘Vexations’ by Erik Satie Continuously for 28 Hours.” Free.
September 4, 2018, Tuesday, 6:00-8:00 pm. Science Cafe—The Draft Sports Bar, 67 South Main Street, Concord, New Hampshire, USA—Marc Abrahams will discuss the Ig Nobel Prizes, with David Brooks.
September 11, 2018, Tuesday, 4:30-6:00 pm. Knight Science Journalism seminar—MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA—Marc Abrahams will discuss the upcoming Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, and the history of the Ig. (private event)
September 13, 2018, Thursday, 6:00 pm. The 28th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony— Sanders Theatre, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. TICKETS available exclusively from the Harvard Box Office.
September 15, 2018, Saturday, 1:00 pm. The Ig Informal Lectures—MIT, Building 10, room 250, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Details TBA.
September 22-November 4, 2018.  Ig Nobel Exhibition—AaMo Gallery at the Tokyo Dome, Tokyo, Japan.  Marc Abrahams and several Ig Nobel Prize winners will be present at the opening. There will be related events, too—details of those TBA.
October 3, 2018, Wednesday. FSTech—Orlando, Florida, USA.  Marc Abrahams will give the keynote address: “Improbably Good and Bad Innovations in Food and Food Service.”
October 4, 2018, Thursday. Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.  Details TBA.
October 10, 2018, Wednesday, 5:30 pm. Hartford County Medical Association Annual Meeting, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.  Details TBA.
November, 2018.  Ig Nobel Autumn EuroTour.  Details TBA.
November 23, 2018, Friday. “Science Friday” Ig Nobel radio broadcast.  Details TBA.

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