The theme of the upcoming 35th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony is DIGESTION. Some humans think of digestion mainly in terms of their own experience, either as eating food or as being food. To expand the mental and digestive horizons of one of those people, suggest to them that they read, or at least […]
Lavie Tridhar writes, in Nature, a gummy tribute of sorts to the 2021 Ig Nobel Ecology Prize winners, Leila Satari, Alba Guillén, Àngela Vidal-Verdú, and Manuel Porcar, who used genetic analysis to identify the different species of bacteria that reside in wads of discarded chewing gum stuck on pavements in various countries. Tridhar’s tribute begins: […]
“Children Chewing” is a featured revue article in the special Children issue (volume 27, number 5) of the magazine Annals of Improbable Research. Read this article, free, on the web. Then, if research about kids chewing inspires you, subscribe to the magazine, or buy individual back issues.
Here is the Ig Informal Lecture by the winners of the 2020 Ig Nobel Medicine Prize. The Ig Nobel Prizes honor achievements that make people LAUGH, then THINK. In the Ig Informal Lectures, some days after the ceremony, the new Ig Nobel Prize winners attempt to explain what they did, and why they did it. [In non-pandemic years, […]
