Marc Abrahams is the editor of the parody magazine Annals of Improbable Research and the founder of the internationally renowned Ig Nobel prizes, which honor bizarre, questionable, and downright funny scientific research.
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Ig Nobel Prizes Salute Science’s Strange and Silly
In a Science Friday holiday tradition, we’re playing highlights from this year’s 24th First Annual Ig Nobel awards ceremony.
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Annual Prizes Honor the Stranger Side of Science
The IgNobel Prizes salute unusual research, such as an investigation of dung beetle navigation.
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Turning Girl Scout Cookies Into Graphene
Scientists have transformed baked goods into graphene, worth two million times the price of gold.
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A View from the Flip Side
Ten days is all it takes your brain to right a world that looks upside down.
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Ig Nobel Prizes Celebrate Somewhat Suspect Science
Ponytail physics, the sloshing in a coffee cup, and an opera about the universe feature in this year’s Ig Nobel Prize ceremony.
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Learning From the Things That Annoy Us
Why you have to overcome irritation in order to examine it.
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The Importance of Strange Science
Science doesn’t have to be serious—you can always learn from it.
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Catching Up with Tom Swift a Century Later
A look back at the fictional boy inventor and his 100 year legacy.
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Putting a Friendly Face on Statistics
Turning data into faces makes people take notice.