33: The Ig Nobel Prize
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🗓️ 2 December 2019
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
This episode we dig into one of the inspirations for the podcast, the Ig Nobel Prize! Having a prize for great scientific achievements is certainly an important thing, but when it comes to the crazy, weird, and wonderful stories (that still make you think) there’s the Ig Nobel Prize!
References and Further Reading
1. https://www.improbable.com/
2. https://www.wired.co.uk/article/wired-awake-140918
3. https://www.drgoulu.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Rheology-of-cats.pdf
4. https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/science/2019/sep/13/study-french-postmens-testicles-ig-nobel-winner
5. https://twitter.com/improbresearch?s=20
6. https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/600249/2019-ig-nobel-prize-winners
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| 1:00.0 | Let's start the show. You talk about the crazy, weird and wonderful stories from the science world. |
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| 1:43.1 | That sounds like you're going to talk about cannibal cats who take other cats and blend them and then drink them. |
| 1:45.9 | The cannibals and the cats are not related. Separate things. Okay. Separate things. It's lots of |
| 1:50.0 | mini episodes today. Okay. Okay. This is like a best bit. Do they have a common theme? |
| 1:55.8 | Stuff that Corey couldn't make a whole episodes out of it. |
| 1:59.8 | Shut up. He's made a big psych guy's smoothie for us. Frankenstein episode. Yeah. So, there is a common theme. And I will get into that right now. It's cats and cannibals. Well, no, that's not a common theme because I told you those two things aren't related. Catapults. Catapults. I want to do an episode on catapults. Just catapult. You do that, okay, right. Next episode, you do it on catapults. All right. I'll look like something, I'll make an hour of interesting stuff about catapults. You know what, no. Next bonus episode for December, do one on catapots. What, for Patreon? For Patrions. What? Because it's not a good idea. |
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| 2:47.7 | So the Nobel Prize is something we've spoken about many times before on this podcast. |
| 2:51.4 | It's a prize for great scientific achievements and it's certainly an important thing. |
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