Ig Nobel Prize 2023

[GordMay]

The Ig Nobel Prizes are a light-hearted spoof, on the much more serious Nobel Prizes. It’s been running for more than 30 years, and each year awards some truly absurd, head-scratching scientific research, that makes people LAUGH, then THINK.

The 33rd First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony will happen on Thursday, September 14, 2023, at 6:00 pm (US eastern time). The 2023 ceremony will happen entirely as a webcast, not in a theatre.
Presenters, a gaggle of genuine, genuinely bemused Nobel laureates, will hand the Ig Nobel Prizes to the new Ig Nobel winners.

The theme of the 2023 ceremony is: Water.

More about ➥ https://improbable.com/ig/2023-ceremony/
And ➥ https://improbable.com/ig/about-the-ig-nobel-prizes/

Throw Paper Airplanes! (in the Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony 2023)
Video ➥ https://www.youtube.com/watch?embeds...&v=4bTp3bouOGk

[PNWSalmon]

Please stop, I’m bored.

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Thanks for the reminder, listening to this has been a great tradition for years but somehow we lost track of it in the last few years.

[JPA Cate]

In the immortal words of Shiela Farley, my elder son's 2nd grade teacher: it's okay to be bored.


No offense intended. It is a condition you can remedy without outside help.

Ann

[CaptTom]

Yes, good reminder. Please post back when the winners are announced. I doubt I'll watch the live stream, but I would like to go back and read them afterward.

[Be Free]

Originally Posted by JPA Cate

In the immortal words of Shiela Farley, my elder son's 2nd grade teacher: it's okay to be bored.


No offense intended. It is a condition you can remedy without outside help.

Ann

Ann,
I'm not sure if you missed his humor or if I'm missing yours, but I believe that he was referring to Miss Sweetie Poo, an important part of the Ignoble Prizes.
https://improbable.com/tag/miss-sweetie-poo/

[PNWSalmon]

Alls fair in love and ignobles

[GordMay]

The 2024 Ig Nobels
Can pigeons guide missiles? [maybe] Can dead trout swim? [sort of]
Ig Nobels celebrate weirdest research
➥ https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens...2024-1.7322916

“Annual Nobel parody aims to highlight science that makes you think, and more importantly, laugh ...
... The annual award show, organized by the Annals of Improbable Research magazine, is a parody of the prestigious Nobel Prizes and a pun on the word "ignoble. It doles out awards for the weirdest and funniest scientific research ...”

WATCH The 2024 Ig Nobels:
Video [1:39:09] ➥ https://youtu.be/ukBwV9Lap2A

“The Stinker”, official mascot of the Ig Nobel Prizes