“To smell again, perchance to learn better” would be a poetical way to speak of this study about teaching sleeping children in Germany how to read and write better English: “How Odor Cues Help to Optimize Learning During Sleep in a Real Life-Setting,” Franziska Neumann, Vitus Oberhauser, and Jürgen Kornmeier, Scientific Reports, vol. 10, no. […]
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FRIDAY night: Ig Nobel at the Tempodrom in BERLIN
Friday night, the Ig Nobel EuroTour arrives in Berlin. April 12, Friday, 8:00 pm—Ig Nobel Night in Berlin—Tempodrom, Berlin, Germany—Marc Abrahams, with special guest celebrity forensic entomologist Mark Benecke (analysis of some forensic-science-related Ig Nobel Prize winners). TICKETS TICKETS TICKETS are now on sale. [Some background, about the Ig Nobel Prizes.] [PREVIEW in Die Zeit], PREVIEW in Der Tagesspiegel] Tour Subsequent Event […]
In-depth examination of the Ig Nobel Prizes, for German doctors
Ärtze Zeitung, the German newspaper for doctors, has a loving, long appreciation of the Ig Nobel Prizes. It begins [here translated into English]: Winking and improving the world The research results, for which the Ig Nobel Prize is awarded annually, often tease the laughing muscles – and then make you think. Many results are now available in […]
Analysis of gunpowder in Frankfurt
Last week, in the midst of the Ig Nobel EuroTour, we encounter this item—item #1— on a menu in a restaurant in Frankfurt, Germany: Our colleague Merry (“Corky”) White, a food anthropologist based at Boston University, tracked down an explanation of the most colorful named ingredient—gunpowder. The explanation, written by Priyadarshini Nanda, appeared in the […]
