This year’s Ig Nobel Euro (and Brexitannia) Tour begins a few days from now, with events in Switzerland, the UK, and The Netherlands. It stars many Ig Nobel Prize winners — each has done something so surprising that it makes people LAUGH, then THINK. Here is the schedule: Monday, March 31, 2025, 6:00 pm — […]

The phrase (and maybe the very idea of) “pseudo green hair” was introduced to the public in this trichological study: “Pseudo Green Hair,” Xavier Tomas, Marina Nogueras, Alvaro Bartolome, and Juan Ferrando, International Journal of Trichology, vol. 14, 2022, pp. 65-7. The authors report: “we present a case of green hair highlights, coinciding with the […]

Consider the plight of hypothetical artificially intelligent beings. This study worries about exactly that: “Taking AI Welfare Seriously,” Robert Long, Jeff Sebo, Patrick Butlin, Kathleen Finlinson, Kyle Fish, Jacqueline Harding, Jacob Pfau, Toni Sims, Jonathan Birch, and David Chalmers, arXiv 2411.00986, 2024. The authors explain: “We argue that there is a realistic possibility that some […]

This entrancing, well-researched article tells what happened to and because of scientist Saul Justin Newman after he was awarded an Ig Nobel Prize in 2024. You could sum up what happened in just two words: people noticed. But it’s more fun, and more eye-opening and enlightening, to read the juicy (yet judiciously told) details. The […]

Two new TV adventure documentaries about Ig Nobel Prize winners, produced by the NHK network, will be broadcast this week on NHK in Japan (and NHK World, worldwide), and also in the USA on the PBS network. The first will be on Tuesday, March 25, 2025. The second will be on Thursday, March 27. Both […]