Electrified chopsticks, soup bowls, and other eating implements can make bland food taste much saltier — much tastier. The technology was honored with the 2023 Ig Nobel Nutrition Prize. The prize, awarded to Homei Miyashita and Hiromi Nakamura, for their experiments to determine how electrified chopsticks and drinking straws can change the taste of food. […]
On Friday, September 29, we will be doing TWO (2) shows of Improbable Dramatic Readings as part of the Cambridge Science Festival, organized by the MIT Museum. What Luminaries (of various wattage) will each do brief dramatic readings from seemingly absurd, genuine research studies and patents. Some of those studies and patents have won Ig […]
The Ig Informal Lectures Saturday, Sept 15, 2018, 1:00 pm. MIT, building 10, room 250 — 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, Planet Earth. You are invited. It’s free, no tickets needed. Come early to assure a seat. A half-afternoon of improbably funny, informative, informal, brief public lectures and demonstrations: The new Ig Nobel Prize winners have each […]
The story of Boxie, the designed-to-be-cute, wandering, info-gathering robot at MIT: Perhaps Boxie will come to the Ig Informal Lectures at MIT, perhaps…. BONUS: A not-so-cute robot at MIT
