Excerpts from
The mini-Annals of Improbable Research ("mini-AIR")
September 2010, issue number 2010-09. ISSN 1076-500X.
http://www.improbable.com/airchives/miniair/2010/mini2010-09.htm
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2010-09-04 Ig Nobel Ceremony & Webcast - Thurs, Sept 30
The 20th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony is almost here.
It honors achievements that first make people laugh, then make them think.
This year it will be webcast live on YouTube.
Tickets to attend in person are sold out.
THE CEREMONY
WHEN: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 7:30 pm Boston USA time
WHERE: Sanders Theatre, Harvard University
This year's theme is BACTERIA.
DETAILS: <http://improbable.com/ig/2010/>
LIVE WEBCAST
WHEN: Begins at 7:15 pm Boston USA time
WHERE: <http://www.youtube.com/improbableresearch>
OTHER INFO: <http://improbable.com/ig/2010/#webcastinfo>
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2010-09-05 Ig Details
Ten new Ig Nobel Prize winners will be announced. Almost all will be at the
ceremony. Several Nobel Laureates will hand them their Ig Nobel Prizes.
The ceremony will also include...
Keynote lecturer (for 60 seconds) RICH LOSICK.
24/7 Lecturers NEIL GAIMAN, TOSHIYUKI NAKAGAKI, MARY ELLEN DAVEY.
The premiere of "THE BACTERIAL OPERA", about the bacteria who live on a woman's
front tooth, and about that woman. Features a cast of trillions.
Musicians EVELYN EVELYN, AMANDA PALMER, JASON WEBLEY, NICK CARSTOIU, and
DEBORAH HENSON-CONANT.
Past Ig Nobel Prize winners TOSHIYUKI NAKAGAKI and ATSUSHI TERO (slime mold can
solve puzzles); ELENA BODNAR (invention of a bra that converts into 2
protective face masks); DON FEATHERSTONE (creation of the plastic pink
flamingo); KEES MOELIKER (homosexual necrophilia in the mallard duck); and
CHRISTOPHER CHABRIS (people can overlook anything - even a woman in a gorilla
suit)
... and much more.
DETAILS: <http://improbable.com/ig/2010>
WHO'S WHO: <http://improbable.com/ig/2010/ignitaries/index.html>
OPERA CAST: <http://improbable.com/ig/2010/ignitaries/index.html>
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2010-09-06 Ig Nobel Lectures at MIT on Sat, Oct 2
The day after the day after the ceremony, the new winners (and several past
winners, too) will give brief public lectures at MIT. This event is free.
However, seating is limited (as, if you want to be technical about it, is every
event held everywhere).
WHEN: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1:00 pm Boston USA time
WHERE: MIT building 10, room 250
DETAILS: <http://improbable.com/ig/2010/#informallectures>
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EDITOR: Marc Abrahams
MINI-PROOFREADER AND PICKER OF NITS (before we introduce the last
few at the last moment): Wendy Mattson
CO-CONSPIRATORS: Kees Moeliker, Alice Shirrell Kaswell, Gary Dryfoos, Ernest
Ersatz, S. Drew
MAITRE DE COMPUTATION: Jerry Lotto
AUTHORITY FIGURES: Nobel Laureates Dudley Herschbach, Sheldon Glashow, William
Lipscomb, Richard Roberts
(c) copyright 2010, Annals of Improbable Research
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