Press Clips

Press Clips - 2007

What the press has to say about us

NOTE: Items listed in red letters are especially entertaining or enlightening.

"Ig Nobels are going online," Boston Globe," December 31, 2007
"Is there any reason why "serious" journals shouldn't experiment with the same model?" Open Access News, December 29, 2007
"Les Dingos de la Paix," Upstreet [France], December 2007
"Listening to country music could be pushing you over the edge," Vancouver Sun, December 29, 2007
"Annals of Improbable Research Goes Open-Access," Wired, December 28, 2007
"The World of Improbable Research," Tales of the World, December 28, 2007
"Ig Nobel Mag Goes Online for Free," Wired News, December 27, 2007
"Ig Nobel Prize publisher to go free online," CNET, December 27, 2007
"Editor's choice: Orthopaedic gorillas no more," BMJ, December 22, 2007
"Fur, feathers and scales," AFP, December 19, 2007
"Crooning through the years," China Daily, December 10, 2007
"The Ig Nobel Prizes" [video], NTV [Russia], December 9, 2007
"Insegrevious Paratereseomaniacs," A Way With Words [audio], December 8, 2007
"The Best of Annals of Improbable Research," Book Reviews 101, December 1, 2007
"Interview with Glenda Browne," Penrith High School Newsletter, November 2007
"Highlights from the Ig Nobel Awards" [audio], National Public Radio, November 23, 2007
"The world's quirkiest scientists mingle at a Brookline house party," Boston Globe, November 23, 2007
"Ig Nobel Prizes celebrate the unusual with laughter," Buffalo News, November 15, 2007
"Ig Nobel winner talks inspiration," Taipei Times, November 4, 2007
"Gay Bomb," New Scientist, November 3, 2007
"Quando la scienza diverte tutti" and "Gli Ig Nobel alla Loggia," Festival della Scienza blog [Italy], October 27, 2007
"I premi Ig Nobel - Cose che fanno prima ridere e poi riflettere," E cosa ci vuoi fare? [Italy], October 28, 2007
"Il Premio Ignobel: la scienza fa ridere," Mentolocale [Italy], October 27, 2007
"The Ig Nobel Awards," Student, October 26, 2007
"Did You Hear?" Financial Mail, October 25, 2007
"Ig Nobel Prizes," Hankooky [Korea], October 25, 2007
"Morning File: 'Tis Nobeler to snag an Ig, if you're not too touchy about it," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, October 22, 2007
"Shock! Eating a sword hurts," News & Star, October 22, 2007
"[A ciência] reduziu imenso o seu foco," Correio Da Manha [Portugal], October 21, 2007
"The Ignobility of Wrinkles," Science News, October 20, 2007
"And the winner is...," Tasmania Mercury, October 19, 2007
"Gay bomb Nobel Peace Prize! ? Executive Nobel Prize 2007,” KISTI [South Korea] October 18, 2007
"The bottomless appetite," New Zealand Herald, October 18, 2007
"The prize for the craziest awards ceremony," Belfast Telegraph, October 18, 2007
"Ig Nobel Prizes 2007," Sciscape [Taiwan], October 18, 2007
"Wild und frei," Falter [Austria], October 17, 2007
"The 2007 Ig Nobel Prizes," Munhwa [Korea], October 16, 2007
"When It Comes To Overeating, The Eyes Have It," National Post, October 16, 2007
"Unique experiments at Café Scientifique," Minnesota Daily, October 15, 2007
"Soup Study Wins Prof Mock Nobel," Cornell Sun, October 15, 2007
"Ig Nobel Prize: Ridiculous triumph for crazy researchers," Pravda [Russia], October 15, 2007
"Ig Nobel Prizes: odd but legit," The Heights, October 15, 2007
"Sword swallowing is dangerous," Channel 4 News [UK], October 15, 2007
"Top honours at this year's Ig Nobel Awards," South China Morning Post, October 15, 2007
"Buscan llevar a la práctica experimento sobre el Viagra que resultó premiado," Diario Hoy [Argentina], October 14, 2007
"Chinese Thief-Trap Inventor Honored," Shanghai Evening Post [China], October 14, 2007
"Creación de una ‘bomba gay’ gana el Ig Nobel de la Paz," Nacion [Costa Rica], October 14, 2007
"Whoops apocalypse," Belfast Telegraph, October 14, 2007
"Bottomless Soup Bowl Proves Eyes Are Bigger Than Stomach," City News,
"Joseph Taddeo was one of the Seven Dwarfs," Palm Beach Post, October 14, 2007
"Good Morning Lowcountry," Birmingham Courier and Post, October 14, 2007
"East-West crossroads," Life Plus [South Korea], October 14, 2007
"El otro Nobel colombiano," El Espectador [Colombia], October 13, 2007
"Gay bomb and BMJ authors win prizes," BMJ, October 13, 2007
"Ig Nobel prizes 2007," New Scientist, October 13, 2007
"Editorial: The lighter side of science," Las Vegas Sun, October 12, 2007
"Bottomless bowls are an Ig Nobel winner," PhysOrg, October 12, 2007
"Definitely the article," The Australian, October 12, 2007
"The Funniest Science on Earth"[with many images], Popular Science, October 12, 2007
"Hartselle Ig Nobel winner on cutting edge," Birmingham News, October 12, 2007
"Joshing, spoofing and damage," Walt at Random, October 12, 2007
"Wansink takes Ig Nobel prize," Calorie Counter, October 12, 2007
"Plagiaat? No problem, sahib!" C2W [The Netherlands], October 12, 2007
"And finally…," Echo, October 12, 2007
"The Null's Top Ten Ig Nobel Winners," Null Hypothesis, October 12, 2007
"Researchers honoured for truth that’s hard to swallow," OnMedica, October 12, 2007
"The bottomless appetite," Reuters, October 11, 2007
"Ig Nobel Prizes Awarded," Dar al Hayat [Arabic], October 11, 2007
"Weapons of War Scoop Spoof Nobels," Nature, October 11, 2007
"Sword swallower from area earns national award," Decatur Daily, October 10, 2007
Interview with Ig Nobel winner Brian Wansink [VIDEO], U.S. Food Policy Television, October 10, 2007
"Some prizes more noble than others," Regina Leader-Post, October 10, 2007
"2007 Ig Nobel Awards Parodies Weird Science," AHN [The Philippines], October 10, 2007
"Weird Science Rewarded," Montreal Gazette, October 10, 2007
"Indexer's Ig Nobel proves all the go," The Australian, October 10, 2007
“Side effects ingesting swords," Welt [Germany], October 10, 2007
"Un ensayo linguistico con ratas logra un 'anti-Nobel'," La Vos de Asturias [Spain], October 10, 2007
"Indexer's Ig Nobel proves all the go," Australian, OCtober 10, 2007
"The Ig Nobel Prizes," Shanghai Evening Post [China], October 10, 2007
"Viagra gegen Jet-Lag bei Hamstern und Vanille aus Kuhfladen," AFP [Germany], October 10, 2007
"Vanilla perfume Japanese Yamamoto awarding 2007 Nobel Prize from the droppings of the cow," AFP [Japan] Daily, October 10, 2007
"ASSEGNATI I PRESTIGIOSI PREMI ‘IG-NOBEL’," Tuttoggi [Italy], October 10,2007
"A cure hiccups wins the Nobel Prize!?," Media General Science [South Korea], October 9, 2007
"The 17th "funny Nobel Prize" announced: China winning the first Chinese Economics Prize," NetEase [China] October 9,2007
"The Most Coveted Award in Science...the Ig Nobels," Genome Technology, October 9, 2007
"A new cure for jet lag?" Star-Ledger, October 9, 2007
"Salute the simple sword of truth [or here for prettier version]" Guardian, October 9, 2007
"Self-filling soup bowls garner CU's Wansink an 'Ig Nobel'," Cornell Chronicle, October 9, 2007
"By the Sword," Cocktail Party Physics, October 9, 2007
"Ig Nobel Prizes 'make people laugh . . . and think,' Daily Free Press, October 9, 2007
"Patch Tuesday Sees Four Critical Patches/ 2007 Ig Nobel Awards Presented," Redmond Report, October 9, 2007
"Orthodox human rights activist: gay-parades should be equated with weapons of mass destruction," Interfax [Russia], October 9, 2007
"Five years in college ... for this," Independent [Ireland], October 9, 2007
"Ig Nobels and science journalism," Nature, October 8, 2007
"Taiwan's Ig Nobel winner surfaces in Taichung, China Post, October 8, 2007
"Lachwekkendste onderzoeken beloond," De Standaard [Belgium], October 9, 2007
"Hamsters on Viagra - and then things become really weird," Shanghai Daily [China], October 8, 2007
"Blinded by 'science'," PressConnects, October 8, 2007
"2007 Ig Nobel Prizes," Chemical & Engineering News, October 8, 2007
"Ig Nobel Prizes Award Unusual Research," Sina [Shina], October 8, 2007
"Viagra vir hamsters en beesmis-vanielje," Beeld [South Africa], October 8, 2007
"GAY BOMB wins Peace Prize," ElectricShow [Singapore], October 8, 2007
"Lecker Vanille aus Kuhfladen," Biz Awards [GERMANY], October 8, 2007
"This years 'bizarre Nobel Prize' Who is glorious?," Media General Science [South Korea], October 8, 2007
"Ig Nobel," Bodegones [Italy], October 7,2007
"Harvard awarded this year's Ig Nobel Prize, the jokes," IT Bear [China], October 7, 2007
"Ratas,'bombas gay' y tragadores de sables," El Pais [Argentina], October 7, 2007
"Gay bomb' developer wins Ig Nobel award," Sydney Morning Herald [Australia], October 7, 2007
"And the winners of the 2007 IG Nobel are . . .," Boston Herald, October 7, 2007
"'Gay bomb' proposal wins comical prize," Gay NZ, October 7, 2007
"Smarties Gone Wild: The Ig Nobels," Bostonist, October 7, 2007
"Annual Ig Nobel awards honor quirky inventions, Taipei Times, October 6, 2007
"Ig-Nobla zgarnia," Gazeta [Poland], October 6, 2007
"To 'the' or not to 'the' — that is the question," The Age, October 6, 2006
"Escinsel bombasina Ig-Nobel," Millyet [Turkey], October 6, 2006
"TOKYO: Japanese wins prize for cow dung idea," Asahi Shimbun [Japan], October 6, 2007
"Indian Origin Scientist Wins Ig Nobel Prize!" New Kerala, October 6, 2007
“Prijs voor ‘de stofjuffrouw’,” NRC Handelsblad [The Netherlands], Oct 6, 2007
"2007 funny "alternative Nobel Prize" promulgated," Guangzhou Daily [China], October 6, 2007
"Ig Nobel Prizes Are Given to 2007 Winners” 2007," Manager [Thailand], October 6, 2007
"Sword Study's a Cut Above," Gloucestershire Citizen, October 6, 2007
"Japanese Cow Dung Vanilla Researcher Wins Ig Nobel Prize," [VIDEO], FNN [Japan], October 6, 2007
"Ein Rohrkrepierer," Taz [Germany], October 6, 2007
"Inte nobla men roliga pristagare," DagensNyheter [Sweden], October 6, 2007
"La Ciencia nos mata de risa," ABC [Spain], October 6, 2007
"Ig Nobel," Taiwan Calling, October 6, 2007
"The science is also crazy the kind of Nobel prize to promulgate in addition," Hubei Television [China], October 6, 2007
"Sword Swallowing Is Dangerous" [video], Channel 4 News, October 5, 2007, and "Science Punk on TV," Science Punk, October 6, 2007
"Bombentypen," Taz [Germany], October 5, 2007
"Estudo sobre "bomba gay" ganha prêmio Ig Nobel," Folha [Brazil], October 5, 2007
"�artovnú nobelovku udelili za vanilku z hnoja," Pravda [Russia], October 5, 2007
"Ig Nobel awards celebrate funny, thought-provoking research," and "On the Shoulders of Giants," MSN, October 5, 2007
"Taiwan Inventor wins Ig Nobel Prize," Daily Apple [Taiwan], October 5, 2007
"Taiwan inventor wins Ig Nobel for bank robber trapping system," China Post, October 5, 2007
"Un IgNobel pour le décalage horaire chez le hamster," Le Figaro, October 5, 2007
"Every one’s a winner in the science of swords, Viagra and dung vanilla," Times—London, October 5, 2007
"Poop Vanilla, Endless Soup Among 2007 Ig Nobels," National Geographic News, October 5, 2007
"The Ig Nobel Awards," News 10 Syracuse [with video, sort of], October 5, 2007
"Ig Nobel Prizes Stranger Than Fiction," Science Now, October 5, 2007
"Harvard assegna i Nobel alternativi: ‘bomba gay’ e vaniglia dallo sterco delle mucche," Il Messaggero [Italy], October 5,2007
"Bomba gay anti-nemico, ecco l'IG-Nobel," prizes awarded by the most questionable of the world," Corriere Della Sera [Italy], October 5,2007
"Viagra ai criceti e bombe gay Il volto bizzarro della scienza," La Repubblica [Italy], October 5, 2007
"Viagra hilft Hamstern gegen Jet-Lag," Abendblatt, [Germany], October 5, 2007
"In hamsters, Viagra helps alleviate jet lag ," Innovation Economy, October 5, 2007
"Per la Pace premiata la Bomba gay," prizes awarded by the most questionable of the world," Quotidiano [Italy], October 5,2007
"Assegnati i premi Ig Nobel," Pupia [Italy], October 5,2007
"This year 'bizarre Nobel Prize' of animal dung created by vanilla," Union News [South Korea], October 5, 2007
"The power of 'the' wins Ig Nobel," ABC [Australia], October 5, 2007
"‘Egg’ Nobel Awards Play Chicken Last Night," MIT—The Tech, October 5, 2007
"'Gay Bomb' Wins 2007 Ig Nobel Prize," Towleroad, October 5, 2007
"It's official: swallowing swords hurts your throat," [with slide show] Guardian, October 5, 2007
"Vanille aus Kuhfladen: IgNobel-Preis wurden verliehen," Der Standard [Austria], October 5, 2007
"'Gay Bomb' Developers Receive Ig Nobel Prize," Gayweird, October 5, 2007
"The IgNobel Awards," Polly Vous Francais, October 5, 2007
"Bovine benefit from the vanilla fragrance," AFPBB News [Japan], October 5, 2007
"Go ahead and vote," St John's Telegram, October 5, 2007
"Weer een Nederlandse winnaar Ig Nobel prijzen," de Volkskrant [the Netherlands], October 5, 2007
"Eccentricity Entertains at Ig Nobels," Harvard Crimson, October 5, 2007
"Ig Nobel Prizes Honor Japanese Chemist," Asahi, October 5, 2007
"Het bed, de mijten en de prijs, Noorderlicht VPRO, October 5, 2007
"An Ig Nobel diary," Nature, October 5, 2007
"Gay bomb proposal wins satirical prize," Pink News UK, October 5, 2007
"Q&A: 'Axis of innovation could shift to the East'," Times of India, October 5, 2007
"Japanese Vanilla Dung Discovery Cops Ig Nobel Prize," Mianichi [Japan], October 5, 2007
"Ig Noblesse oblige" and "2007 Ig Nobel winners" and "Scientists salute the good, the bad, the Ig-ly," Boston Globe, October 5, 2007
"El 'Antinobel', por primera vez para tres argentinos" and "Un Antinobel para 3 argentinos," Clarin [Argentina], October 5, 2007
"Prawie jak Nagroda Nobla," Dziennik [Poland], October 5, 2007
"'Bomba gay' e baunilha extraída de estrume levam o Ignobel 2007," Globo [Brazil], October 5, 2007
"Ig Nobel Goes to Vanilla-from-Dung Innovator," Sankei MSN [Japan], October 5, 2007
"Love a duck - it's time for the Ig Nobels" Guardian, October 5, 2007
"IG-NOBEL” PRIZE, DISCOVERY THAT SWALLOWING SWORDS IS HARMFUL," AGI [Italy], October 5, 2007
"Ig Nobel Laureates Do Studies on Subjects That Include Gay Love Bombs and Crusty Bedmates," Chronicle of Higher Education, October 5, 2007
"Gay Bombs, Bottomless Soup Bowls and Hamsters on Viagra: the 2007 Ig Nobel Prizes," Wired News, October 5, 2007
"Spammers target hamsters after Ig Nobel winning research," The Register, October 5, 2007
“Ig Nobel award winners announced," vnunet, October 5, 2007
"Sword swallowing is dangerous," Channel 4 [UK], October 5, 2007
"Military wins Ig Nobel peace prize for 'gay bomb'," New Scientist, October 5, 2007
"Love not war: gay bomb is a hit at awards," Irish Examiner, October 5, 2007
"'Gay Bomb' Developers Receive Ig Nobel Prize," Gay Wired, October 5, 2007
"Ig Nobel awards give peace (and animal dung) a chance,” CNet, October 5, 2007
"CU researcher wins ‘Ig Noble' for quirky study," The Ithaca Journal October 5, 2007
"'Gay bomb', cow dung study among Ig Nobel winners," Reuters, October 5, 2007
"2007 Ig Nobel Awards Announced," SlashDot, October 5, 2007
"Hamsters on Viagra take center stage at spoof Nobel awards," AFP [France], October 5, 2007
"Sword Swallowing Wins Award," Gloucestershire Citizen, October 5, 2007
"American project of the "bomb gay" gains Ig prize Nobel of the useless research," G Magazine [Brazil], October 5, 2007
"Ig Nobels go to sword swallowing, gay bomb," Ars Technica, October 5, 2007
"Gay bomb wins award," InTheNews, October 5, 2007
"'Gay Bomb', Hamster Jetlag Cure Win Ig Nobel Awards," Sofia News Agency, October 5, 2007
"Les anti-Nobel 2007: palmarès loufoque," Le Post [France], October 5, 2007
"Delirantes premios Anti-Nobel distinguieron a América latina y España," Univision, October 5, 2007
"Sword swallowing study wins alternative Nobel prize," Telegraph—London, October 4, 2007
"'Bomba gay' e novos efeitos do Viagra levam IgNobel de 2007," Estadao [Brazil], October 4, 2007
"Ig Nobels honor crazy science with a point," MSNBC, October 4, 2007
"'Gay bomb' scoops Ig Nobel award," BBC, October 4, 2007
"Hoy mirá los Antinobel," Clarin [Argentina], October 4, 2007
"Ig Nobel Prizes a Mouthful of Fun," October 4, 2007
"Making fun of science," Nature Network, October 4, 2007
"Real Nobel Laureates show their silly side at Ig Nobels ceremony," Associated Press, October 3, 2007
"Ig Nobel: Honoring weird science at Harvard," October 2, 2007
"Ode to the living dead," DNA [India], September 30, 2007
"Tomorrow's headlines, today," CNN, September 28, 2007
"Do try this at home," Times of London, September 27, 2007
"Science, weird hats and fart jokes," Nashua Telegraph, September 26, 2007
"New faculty welcomed," Union College Chronicle, September 17, 2007
"It was a great week if you go for wacky science," Tallahassee Democrat, September 8, 2007
"Did They Really Do That?," The Scientist, September 7, 2007
"The Best of Annals of Improbable Research," Book Reviews 101, September 1, 2007
"When Nanotech Was Popping," New York Times, August 31, 2007
"Prize-Winning Scams" and "Gordon Brown's Maths," New Scientist, August 18, 2007
"OUR IGNOBEL HISTORY: IF you've ever showered," Bend Weekly News, August 17, 2007
"Weird Science," The Age, August 12, 2007
"Making a monkey out of science," Guardian, July 19, 2007
"The vagus nerve: a true information highway," North County Times, July 15, 2007
"OUR IGNOBEL HISTORY: Jack and Rexella Van Impe," Bend Weekly News, July 6, 2007
"'Neuticle' inventor defends his product's purpose," CTV, July 2, 2007
"Weird science - but do we need proof of oddball facts," Scotsman, June 19, 2007
"Global harmony achieved with a little help from the microphone echo function," Daily Yomiuri, June 16, 2007
"Five-second rule for dropped food? Try 30," CTV, June 12, 2007
"Our Ignobel History," Bend Weekly News, June 8, 2007
"Five Second Rule? Relax," Hartford Courant, May 18, 2007
"Annals of Improbable Research Goes Digital, Ig Nobel Founder Tells All" and photo gallery, Wired News, May 17, 2007
"Germs Are Germs '5 Seconds' An Urban Myth Busted Again," Blogger News Network, May 12, 2007
"The Five-Second Rule Explored, or How Dirty Is That Bologna?" New York Times, May 9, 2007
"TM fans say it’s all in their head: Claim meditating fights stress, aids focus," Boston Herald, May 6, 2007
"Scientist may be all wet in study of rain amounts on weekends," Reno Gazette Journal, May 4, 2007
"Carrying a Tune," Bangkok Post, April 27, 2007
"Sluts and vermin," Toronto Globe & Mail, April 26, 2007
"Many run in Tokyo, but voters just can't say no," International Herald Tribune, April 8, 2007
"Lachen en nadenken," Nieuw Rotterdam [The Netherlands], April 2007
"Signing on," Nature, May 24, 2007
"Cabbie, dilettante and prolific inventor in fray to lead Tokyo," AFP, March 6, 2007
"Hiccups," The Science Show [audio and transcript], March 31, 2001
"L'armatura di Robocop ora è realtà," Corriere della Sera [Italy], March 26, 2007
"Inventor touts Robocop-style armour for use in Iraq," Register, March 25, 2007
"Shocking documentary," Screen India, March 23, 2007
"Japanese Candidate's 'Ultimate Missile Shield'", Danger Room, March 22, 2003
"The Improbable Research Lecture Tour 2007," Velcro City Tourist Board, March 18, 2007
"The Ig Nobel Tour - a unique experience," New Scientist, March 15, 2007
"A club where scientists let hair down," Australian, March 14, 2007
"Science Extra: Marc Abrahams," [podcast] Guardian Unlimited, March 12, 2007
"Ig Nobel awards presentation," Western Mail, March 9, 2007
"Tennessean discovers unusual cure for hiccups," Murfreesboro Post, February 25, 2007
"The Ig Nobel Awards hit Cardiff," Gair Rhydd, February 24, 2007
"The real ‘Woody the Woodpecker’", River Falls Journal, February 23, 2007
"Waking up to Clocky," Business Standard, February 21, 2007
"Genial behämmert," Stern [Germany], February 18, 2007
"Connais-tu les IgNobel?" Les Debrouillards [Canada], February 2007
"Ig Nobel awards put spotlight on wacky research," Tehachapi News, February 12, 2007
"Paging Dr Frankenstein," Reader's Digest, February 2007
"...he was more suited for the Ig-Nobel," Business Standard, February 10, 2007
"Ig noble awards," MPDClick, February 9, 2007
"Musing on sandwich patent applications," Seattle Post-Intelligencer, February 7, 2007
"Great moments in human research (part 2)," Register, February 3, 2007
"Great moments in human research (part 1)," Register, January 27, 2007
"Bloedserieuze wetenschap voor lachende onderzoekers," Metro [The Netherlands], January 18, 2007
"Consumer Lookout: Science steps in to help with pet projects," Minneapolis Star Tribune, January 14, 2007
"From bears to bullets," Hamilton Spectator, January 11, 2007. [With associated video.]
"Researchers awarded for weird science," Pasadena Star-News, January 11, 2007
"Why Woodpeckers Don't Get Headaches," LiveScience, January 8, 2007

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