Press Clips - 2012

What the press has to say about us

NOTE: Items listed in red letters are especially entertaining or enlightening.
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• "America's other drinking and driving problem", Fox Business, May 15, 2012
• "Gizmodo Asks Dr Karl About His Geek Origins", Gizmodo, May 15, 2012
• "IG Nobel: para duvidar, rir e pensar", Ligia Fascioni [Brazil], May 12, 2012
• "Kai visi keliai veda niekur", Alfa [Lithuania], May 11, 2012
• "Pitch drop experiment's ninth drop is preparing to fall. Fingers crossed the live feed holds" [and LIVE WEB CAM], News.com, May 7, 2012
• "La regla de los 10 segundos", La Nacion [Argentina], May 6, 2012
• "Strange Prize", Stoo [Korea], May 6, 2012
• "Eureka: 'Ig Nobel' book found in Porter Square", Cambridge Day, May 4, 2012
• "The Physics of Spilled Coffee", Science Now, May 4, 2012
• "Breaking: Oppenheimer to leave for UCLA", daily Princetonian, May 3, 2012
• "Fórmula matemática para evitar los ojos cerrados en una foto de grupo", Ciencia, May 2, 2012
• "Americani e turchi i più convinti: la fine del mondo è vicina", Linkiesta [Italy], May 2, 2012
• "The Drone, the Car & the Beat", CollTales, April 27, 2012
• "Doc finds G-spot in cadaver", CNEWS, April 25, 2012
• "Study: Elusive G-Spot Identified On Cadaver, But Controversy Remains", WBUR CommonHealth, April 25, 2012
• "Tissetrengthet tilsvarer 0,5 i promille", Dagbladet [Norway], April 25, 2012
• "Why Everybody's Wrong About the G-Spot", Gizmodo, April 25, 2012
• "Ig-nobel et le soutien-gorge masque à gaz / Ig-Nobel and the bra protective face mask", My Dream Lingerie, April 24, 2012
• "Holding in a wee is 'as bad as drink driving'", Autoblog, April 24, 2012
• "Ig Nobel start", San Diego Union-Tribune, April 23, 2012
• "Why Having To Pee While Driving Is As Bad As Drinking", Jalopnik, April 23, 2012
• "Ig Nobel Inventions", Epilektoi News [Greece], April 22, 2012
• "Ignobelevskaya Award", Sententia [Russia], April 20, 2012
• "Interview with the select-politicians-at-random physicist Andrea Rapisarda" [AUDIO], Material World [BBC Radio 4], April 19, 2012
• "Scientific showman wins award for levitating frog," Western Morning News, April 19, 2012
• "Woodpecker Skulls Have a Special Build", Comments [Ukraine], April 19, 2012
• "Farts! The silent killer", Windsor Star, April 19, 2012
• "Best way to pick legislators? At random.", Wonkblog, April 17, 2012
• "Beautiful minds: Andre Geim levitates a frog", BBC Four, April 17, 2012
• "Ig Nobel" [VIDEO], Vetenskapens Varld [Sweden], April 16, 2012
• "Laughing matters: Marc Abrahams", Bambu Batu, April 16, 2012
• "Mucche ideali e cavalli reali (l'articolo)", Rangle [Italy], April 16, 2012
• "Marc Abrahams Makes Science Improbably Funny" [AUDIO], NPR Science Friday, April 13, 2012
• "Discoveries About Woodpecker Heads", Lenta [Russia], April 11, 2012
• "A Pineapple in praise of science", China Daily, April 11, 2012
• "The 20th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize," Jeopardy!, April 9, 2012
• "The five greatest Ig Nobel prize-winning scientific papers", Wired, April 6, 2012
• "Ig Nobel Prizes show silly side of science", St. Louis Beacon, April 5, 2012
• "Santé: Faire craquer ses articulations dangereux pour la santé?", Au Feminin [France], April 4, 2012
• "Bart Knols: Cheese and dogs and a pill to kill mosquitoes" [VIDEO], TEDx Maastricht, April 2, 2012
• "April Fools' Day: Why Is It Prime Time for Pranks?", National Geographic, April 1, 2012
• "Humour in Science" [AUDIO], Ockham's Razor [ABC], April 1, 2012
• "There is a parody set", Today I Found Out, April 1, 2012
• "Pesce d'aprile, scherzi da premio", National Geographic Italia [Italy], March 31, 2012
• "Ignobel Indians", Open, March 31, 2012
• "Silly Serious Science: Homage to the Ig Nobel and Ben Franklin", Wall Street Journal Ideas Calendar, March 31, 2012
• "Les craquements de doigts étudiés sur 50 ans", Le Monde [Fracne], March 30, 2012
• "Una historia de amor entre un escarabajo y una botella de cerveza se lleva el premio Ig Nobel", RTVE [Spain], March 30, 2012
• "The Ig Nobel Prizes", BigThinkTV [Korea], March 29, 2012
• "PENNY HAW: Learning to turn your nose up in life", Business Day, March 28, 2012
• "Pardon me: Did a robot just hear fish farts?" MSNBC Technolog, March 28, 2012
• "Sild prutter" [AUDIO], P4 Fyn [Denmark], March 28, 2012
• "Zanahorias y dientes de león de Alemania y almas muertas de Grecia", La Voz de Rusia [Russia], March 26, 2012
• "En misstänkt ubåt kan vara fisande sillar", SVT [Sweden], March 25, 2012
• "Magnus Wahlberg: Fish Farts, not Russian Submarines" [AUDIO], Naturmorgon [Sweden], March 24, 2012
• "Escarabajo australiano en peligro de extinción: machos confundidos copulan con botellas de cerveza", BioBioChile [Chile], March 23, 2012
• "Fjollede forskere besøger Odense", Fyens [Denmark], March 23, 2012
• "Hardest Possible", Globes [Israel], March 22, 2012
• "Diputado opositor anuncia que postulará a Evo a premio anti-Nobel", Opinion [Bolivia], March 20, 2012
• "Research by Mucking About", StrategyProfs.net, March 20, 2012
• "Amüsante Forschungsergebnisse im Netz", Techfacts [Germany], March 17, 2012
• "Fire alarm that sets your lungs burning as well", The Times [London], March 16, 2012
• "Some meals are indeed works of art", San Francisco Chronicle, March 16, 2012
• "Research by Mucking About", Forbes, March 16, 2012
• "Who's Afraid of the Wasabi Fire Alarm ?" Memoirs of a Defective Brain, March 16, 2012
• "Pass the wasabi", Physics World, March 14, 2012
• "Ig Nobel Prize: Science and Humor", Yale Scientific Magazine, March 14, 2012
• "Forskning som väcker skratt och eftertanke", Karolinska Institure [Sweden], March 13, 2012
• "Interview de Arnd Leike, Ig Nobel de physique", Naked Science [France], March 12, 2012
• "Daniel Oppenheimer at Barnes and Noble", Metro Weekly, March 12, 2012
• "An experiment to be reckoned with", Italia Futura, March 12, 2012
• "The Ig Nobel Tour of the UK", [AUDIO] Guardian Science Weekly Podcast, March 12, 2012
• "Vuoi rimanere concentrato al tavolo? Occhio alla vescica! Fonte AssoPoker", Assopoker [Italy], March 11, 2012
• "Ig Nobel Prizes," Independent Broadcasters of Ireland, March 3, 2012
• "Andre Geim is the only person...", Varsity, March 2, 2012
• "Hoagland se convirtió en un conspiranoico..." El Correo [Spain], March 2, 2012
• "Los Nuevos Ig Nobel", Diariovasco, February 29, 2012
• "How fish farts almost caused a diplomatic crisis between Russia and Sweden" [VIDEO], BoingBoing, February 29, 2012
• "L'expérience la plus longue du monde", Techniques-Ingenieur [France], February 28, 2012
• "Fun and Games", Crosswalk, February 28, 2012
• "Sofia Dahl from Media Technology in Copenhagen has been asked to talk at the Ig Nobel Prize Tour", Aalborg University, February 28, 2012
• "Vaginal pH Redux: Broader Perspectives on Douching, Race… and Lime Juice", Context and Variation, February 28, 2012
• "How long and boring meetings diminish brainpower", Irish Times, February 27, 2012
• "The only decent academic study that I can find", Financial Times, February 26, 2012
• "A cut throat profession: the dying art of sword swallowing", East Londoners, February 24, 2012
• "Study links urge to pee with impairment", Brown Daily Herald, February 24, 2012
• "The Tale Of A Wolfram Research Co-founder And His Beloved 'Periodic Table Table'", TechCrunch, February 23, 201"
• "When Research Is Funny", Canadian Geographic Compass, February 19, 2012
• "Oyalanman?n bilimi ve sanati", Yesil Gazette [Turkey], February 19, 2012
• "First Nobel/Ig Nobel winner is no mad scientist", Herald-Times, February 19, 2012
• "The ignoble, and nutty, pursuit of scientific knowledge", Vancouver Sun, February 18, 2012
• "Russian physicist — Nobel winner for graphene work, levitator of frogs — to give public lecture at IU," Indiana University, February 17, 2012
• "It's never too late — or early — to start challenging your brain", Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, February 12, 2012
• "Ig Nobel Awards: Most hilarious Technology Accomplishments", The Guild Wars Game [Denmark], February 8, 2012
• "Ig Nobel: 'Meritocrazia? No grazie, meglio random'", LiveUnict [Italy], February 5, 2012
• "Ig Nobel" [AUDIO], Que se Vayan Todos [Venezuela], February 23, 2012
• "Laugh and Think", JamesEd, January 30, 2012
• "Mad Colors, Invisible Hues & a Boy Who Sees in the Dark", Colltales, January 27, 2012
• ""My Favorite Museum Exhibit": The Bishop's Rectum", Boing-Boing, January 26, 2012
• "Will Your Next Bandage Be Made Of Cured Salt Pork?", Red Orbit, January 26, 2012
• "World's longest lab experiment still going 85 years later", CNET, January 25, 2012
• "Bacon: Nosebleed Cure To End All Nosebleed Cures?", Huffington Post, January 26, 2012
• Marc Abrahams at the GEL Conference [video], GEL Conference, January 25, 2012
• "El Material Nanotecnológico Grafeno, Ahora Empleado Para Hacer un Vodka Más Fuerte", RT [Spain], January 25, 2012
• "Got bacon? DMC docs find pork cures rare nosebleeds", Detroit News, January 25, 2012
• "By the Sword: The Science of Sword-Swallowing", Cocktail Party Physics, January 25, 2012
• Interview with the random-promotion Ig Nobel winners [VIDEO], Telecamere [ITALY], January 22, 2012
• "How to get tickets to the 2012 Ig Nobel Awards tour", Ian Visits, January 22, 2012
• "Workers face a wee problem", Bayside Leader, January 22, 2012
• "From tinkering on the fringes to Nobel glory", New Scientist, January 20, 2012
• "Les avaleurs de sabres souffrent aussi", Le Monde [France], January 20, 2012
• "Henry's Law explains why your knuckles crack", io9, January 20, 2012
• "UQ Pitch Drop Experiment – Like watching paint dry only slower and more interesting", Category Zero, January 20, 2012
• "World's longest lab experiment a lesson in persistence," Brisbane Times, January 20, 2012
• "Que sont les prix IG Nobel?" Omnilogie [France], January 20, 2012
• "'Pasticcio' opera and the Ig Nobel Prizes", CBC Saturday Afternoon at the Opera, January 19, 2012
• "I can't hear you, you're not famous", The Verge, January 19, 2012
• "Slik reagerer fluger i vektlaus tilstand", Forskning [Norway], January 17, 2012
• "I pick my nose seven times a day. You?"' DongaScience [Korea], January 15, 2012
• "¿Cuánto tardas en morir si te cortan la cabeza?", Blodico [Spain], January 15, 2012
• "On fait léviter des mouches pour étudier les effets de l'impesanteur", Futura-Sciences [France], January 13, 2012
• "Recherche: Quand les chercheurs se lâchent…", Actusoins [France], January 13, 2012
• "10 Alternative Uses for a Bra", College Candy, January 10, 2012
• "Tuhaf bilim: 2011'in IG Nobel ödülleri...", CNN [Turkey], January 8, 2012
• "Sale a la venta brassiere que se vuelve mascara antigás", Correo [Peru], January 8, 2012
• "Bra that doubles as a gas mask and won the Ig Nobel Prize is now on sale", It Makes Sense, January 8, 2012
• "Understatement of the Week", UPI, January 8, 2012
• "Algunas cosas que la ciencia enseñó sobre el sexo en 2011", La Nacion [Paraguay], January 7, 2012
• "Nh?ng nghiên c?u k? c?c nh?t n?m 2012", XaLuan [Vietnam], January 7, 2012
• "Bra doubles as gas mask wins Ig Nobel Prize, on sale NOW!" The Whole Pretty, January 7, 2012
• "Yes! The end of the world is nigh. . . again", Independent, January 7, 2012
• "Wasabi Odor Fire Alarm Wins Ig Nobel Prize for Chemistry", Japan FS, January 5, 2012
• "Beetles Boink Bottles?" Society of Women Engineers —NESS, January 4, 2012
• "Psicopatas bocejam como tartarugas?" Psiquiatra e Sociedade [Brazil], January 4, 2012
• "The secret formula for silly science", Cosmic Log, January 4, 2012
• "2012 Weird Science Awards", Cosmic Log, January 4, 2012
• "The IgNobel Prize", Lunch With Monika, January 3, 2012
• "Geometry and Physics of Wrinkling—E. Cerda and L. Mahadevan," Paper del Dia [Spain], January 3, 2012

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