This photo shows some of the books people have written about, or mostly about, the Ig Nobel Prizes. (Marc Abrahams, too, has written some books; those are not included in this photo.) Ig Nobel Prize Fan Book is an ongoing, long-running series, written by fans in Japan. If you know of others, please tell us […]
We invite you to participate in The Seminal Study (also known as “The Seminal Book Question“). The Seminal Study is simple. It asks this one question: Should libraries and bookstores be required to clearly label every seminal book, with a large, easily-readable label that says “SEMINAL”? Please note that: (1) there are many seminal books, […]
David Hu, whose research on urination duration led to the 2015 Ig Nobel Physics Prize and whose research on why wombat poo is cube shaped led—three weeks ago—to the 2019 Ig Nobel Physics Prize, has this week been given a new honor: The American Institute of Physics Announces 2019 Science Communication Award Winners WASHINGTON, D.C., […]
James Joyce may not have had particularly good eyesight, but (some say) he at least partially made up for it with a heightened awareness of smells. Especially bodily ones. Which he often wrote about. In great detail. But do academic works about Joyce’s evident preoccupations with flatulence – which have led some scholars to suggest that […]