For our 2nd anniversary and our 50th episode (which it definitely is, don't check) we cooperatively tackled a topic folks have been asking us to do for ages: The Ig Nobel Prize!

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Timestamps: (00:00:00) Intro (00:08:18) The Ig Nobel Prize (00:45:00) The 2023 Ig Nobel Winners (01:28:36) The Ig Nobel Peace Prize (01:59:09) Outro

We also learn about:

Tom does an evil scientist laugh at Atto Seconds, Ella watch hours of Ig ceremonies, honoring achievements that make people laugh then think, the rotating category, six people have turned down the Nobel, comedy? with a question mark? trying to purposefully win an Ig is like recreating The Room, Limburger cheese, Andre Geim loves his Ig as much as his Nobel, “if people don’t have a very good sense of humor, they are usually not very good scientists either”, Roy Glauber the keeper of the broom ALSO WON A NOBEL, “all they wanted to ask about was that damn broom”, the 24/7 Lectures, Mandelbrot goading miss sweetie poo, Ella’s Favorite Ig-ventions, partially unboiling an egg on stage, Chernobyl Bra Face Masks, that laughing and crying human emotion, cadaver nose hairs with surprisingly few nose hair variations, we all stan replication, Tom’s dad was robbed of the Ig, boring teachers, backwards speakers, maybe their neurons work backwards, the taste of rocks, the trick condition, electric taste, sexism in the stanford toilet, statistically significant anchovy boning affecting the water column, the fish kama sutra, how can i turn that dead spider into a robot? necrobotics is surprisingly easy, anti peace prizes, Pauling’s Nobel burn on Teller, Tom gets recognized, Lal Bihari’s schemes to become undead, “Lal bihari died in 1976 but he is feeling much better”, MAMAAAA OOOoooOOOH, sweet caroline, working as a waitress, karaoke means empty orchestra, Shigeichi Negishi’s first machine, Inoue’s Juke 8 origin story, Inoue is up there with Jonas Salk for not patenting Karaoke, Inoue’s Ig Nobel standing ovation, I’m not going to cry, I just started crying what the fuck, don't tell Ella but Toms my favorite, sometimes three ding dongs can make a podcast

Sources:

About the Ig Nobels Marc Abrahams articles Andrew Geim Limburger Cheese Keeper of the Broom Miss Sweetie Poo Best of Miss Sweetie Poo Wired Article: A Gala for Weird Science Mark Hosteetler 2019 Awards - Very Fun Watch 2015 Awards - Even more Fun 24/7 Lectures Past winners Michigan Driving Law The Blaster Bra Gas Mask --- Nose Hairs Crowd Effects of Looking Up Bored Students and Teachers Ars Technica on the Igs Brain Patterns of Speaking Backwards Eating Fossils Jamais Vu and Semantic Satiation Electric Chopsticks The Stanford Toilet Ocean Mixing from Spawning Fish Necrobotic Spider Grippers --- Marc Abrahams Nobel Thoughts Interview with Linus Pauling Stanley Cohen Nobel Thoughts Interview NYTimes on Lal Bihari Lal Bihari's Ig Nobel Ceremony Matt Alt on Shigeichi Negishi's First Karaoke Machine for Kotaku Daisuke Inoue's Story told for Topic Magazine Time Magazine on Daisuke Inoue Daisuke Inoue's Ig Nobel Ceremony

Release date

Lydbog: 12. oktober 2023