Big Banks and the Big Bang theory combine in these two new episodes (#122 and #121) of the Improbable Research TV series. These were filmed at an early rehearsal of “The Big Bank Opera”. The plot: Stylish bankers in a swanky Wall Street bar explain the explosive rise and fall of big banking and big […]
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Improbable Research Collection #121
Here’s the new episode — #121, “Big Bank Opera Rehearsal, Act 1” — of the Improbable Research TV series. The episode depicts an early rehearsal of Act 1 of “The Big Bank Opera”, in which stylish bankers in a swanky Wall Street bar explain the explosive rise and fall of big banking and big bankers. […]
Ig winners comment on “Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus”
We asked three Ig Nobel Prize-winning experts on sea life to comment on the soon-to-be-released horror film “Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus.” [The image below will, if you click it, show a trailer for the film]. Charles Paxton (co-winner, 2002 Ig Nobel biology prize for the study “Courtship Behaviour of Ostriches Towards Humans Under Farming […]
When Ig winners came to Odense
Last week’s show at Syddansk Universitet in Odense—part of the first Ig Nobel Tour of Denmark—prompted this brief report by TV2. The video features two of the four Ig winners (one of whom, Magnus Wahlberg, of herring-fart fame, is based partly at the university) who were on the tour: