Today – March 15, 2010 – was the start of the UK’s national science and engineering week. For the University of Portsmouth, that meant a presentation by the Ig Nobel tour (Twitter hash tag: #igport). It was filled with laughter, but got pretty serious several times too.
A few keywords: brassiere, gas mask, sword-swallowing, dating, smells, books, shopping, plutonium, pica, obsessions, violence, pregnant women, pandas, Georg Friedrich Händel
The Ig Nobel movement was launched in 1991. The prizes are for research that first makes you LAUGH and then makes you THINK. That’s the only criterion. There is no good and bad research within the Ig Nobel context.