The 25th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony takes place September 17, and you can be part of what
Nature magazine calls "arguably the highlight of the scientific calendar." Be the first on your block to know who won and for what bit of improbable research (which, according to the website, is research that makes one laugh and then think). Among last year's winners were Jiangang Liu, Jun Li, Lu Feng, Ling Li, Jie Tian, and Kang Lee, of China and Canada, who got the neuroscience prize "for trying to understand what happens in the brains of people who see the face of Jesus in a piece of toast," and
Ian Humphreys, Sonal Saraiya,
Walter Belenky, and James Dworkin, of the United States and India, who won the medicine prize "for treating 'uncontrollable'
nosebleeds using the method of nasal-packing-with-strips-of-cured-pork."
And now that you know that, how can you resist? (website, live-streaming):
http://www.improbable.com/ig/2015/
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