Archive for November, 2009
Improbable Research: Ig Nobels Broadcast Today
Improbable Research, a university organization devoted to highlighting the absurd in real-life scientific research and development, is today radio broadcasting their annual Ig Nobel prize ceremony, which awards this farcical prize for the most improbable scientific work of the year.
This short YouTube video from a series the organization assembles is a fine example of some of their hilarious findings.
This is their page about the broadcast today, linking to the NPR listing of local carrier schedules of the broadcast and Science Friday’s web broadcast page.
For my area I’m tuning into KUER-FM 90.1 from noon to 2 for the broadcast.
As retold in a modern setting
I’ve been overhearing one of the audiobook recordings of A Series of Unfortunate Events, as my wife listens through it with our children, and she paused it and talked to them about it:
They’re laughing at the circus freaks because they think they’re better than them. But is that right? .. No, it isn’t, is it?
And this just got me thinking: We’re all freaks.
Which leads to:
All we like freaks have run away; we have run every one and joined our Circus; …