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Ig Nobel diary

A personal account of the silliest Nobels around.

While respectable folks are in Sweden, attending the real thing, I'm here at Harvard for the low-rent alternative: the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony. That's the one that famously aims to award quirky scientific research that "first makes you laugh, then makes you think".

Read the diary report here.

Posted by Nicola Jones on October 9, 2006 09:35 AM |

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