In this talk Marc Abrahams (improbable.com) will describe the prizes and some of the winners, show video clips from the ceremony, and answer questions about his unique journal.
Marc Abraham is founder of the Ig Nobel Award ceremony and editor of the Journal of Improbable Research. The prizes are intended to celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative — and spur people's interest in science, medicine, and technology.
Ig Nobel prizes are awarded in a wide range of disciplines for research that makes people LAUGH, then THINK. They have been given out annually since 1991 in a ceremony held at Harvard University, for which Marc always writes an opera and acts as emcee.
"The Ig Nobel awards are arguably the highlight of the scientific calendar." —Nature