Two days after the 2025 Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, the 632nm blog interviewed several of the new Ig Nobel Prize winners, as you will see and hear here in the resulting video: The interviews happened at the MIT Museum, immediately before the Ig Nobel Face-to-Face event. In the Face-to-Face event, the new winners asked each […]
Economically speaking, should one look up to the businesspeople who build skyscrapers, or look down at them? Calculation is involved in reaching the answer obtained in this study: “A Game-Theoretic Analysis of Skyscrapers,” Robert W. Helsley and William C. Strange, Journal of Urban Economics, vol. 64, no. 1, July 2008, pp. 49-64. The authors explain: […]
New Scientist magazine is running a win-a-mini-helicopter contest in connection with the Ig Nobel webcast. Full details are on the NS site. Here’s a short version: Win a mini helicopter in our Ig Nobel Prize contest Once you have a mini helicopter, you’ll wonder how you ever lived without one – especially if you need […]
