WorldCon in Seattle, Washington, USA will include a special session of Dramatic Improbable Readings, (read aloud by probably dramatic readers) of very brief extracts from improbably exciting genuine published research studies, some of which have been honored with Ig Nobel Prizes. The session will be on Wednesday, August 13. The Seattle readers and other performers […]
June 5th is Dead Duck Day, commemorating a 1995 incident that took place outside the Rotterdam Museum of Natural History (“A Dead Serious Museum“) that has inspired people around the world to think about birds, safety, and just how hard they should be laughing about (or with) nature. Dead Duck Day is observed around the […]
Join us Saturday night, February 15, at the Improbable Research show at the AAAS Annual Meeting, Grand Hyatt Seattle, 71 Pine Street (in Princessa Ballrooms 1 & 2), The annual Improbable Research session will, this year, include: Marc Abrahams, founder of the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony Theresa McKeon, 2019 Ig Nobel Prize winner for using […]
If you will be in Seattle on March 21st then head to the High Dive bar in Fremont to hear Ig Nobel Co-Producer David Kessler give a NerdNite talk: “Onstage & Backstage at The Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony”. David will try to describe The Ig Nobel Prize and also some of the interesting people and […]
