Nature Physics has a nice essay today about the Ig Nobel Prizes. We take the liberty of reproducing it here: Editorial Published: 11 October 2023 Levity and gravity Nature Physics, volume 19, page 1375 (2023) The Ig Nobel Prize celebrates research that makes us first laugh and then think. We look at some of this year’s not so […]
Ancient advice to students to “get out of the classroom and breath some fresh air” has never been quantified to the satisfaction of people who want to quantify it better. A new study takes a brute-force approach: “Minimum Time Dose in Nature to Positively Impact the Mental Health of College-Aged Students, and How to Measure […]
“The observatory crotch peep platform is being installed, a lot of tourists to experience the crotch peeping.” — one highlight from NHK Zero’s TV report about the 2016 Ig Nobel Prize winners. The image you see here, from the TV program, shows how people have been influenced by the winner of the 2016 Ig Nobel Prize […]
Nature is now available in Prescription Strength, which is up for an award: [vimeo]124231471[/vimeo] (Thanks to Margaret Atwood for bringing this to our attention.)
