Ig Nobel Prize winner Saul Justin Newman has an essay in today’s New York Times about the research that won him the 2024 Ig Nobel Prize for demography. (The Times did not mention that the research won a prize. The Times did write an extensive report about it, shortly after that prize was awarded.) Newman’s […]
The Ig Nobel Prizes honor things so surprising that they make people LAUGH, then THINK. At the 2024 Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, ten new prizes were awarded. Two days later, most of the winners gathered, at the MIT Museum in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to ask each other questions. This was the 2024 Ig Nobel Face-to-Face event. […]