Horses can remember your facial expressions, male fruit flies like having sex, a fungus stole genes from a bacteria and why kids have lots of energy.
SoT 245: The 2016 Ig Nobel Prizes
- October 16, 2016
- Tagged as: animals, brain, climate change, corporate fraud, Deepak Chopra, dragonflies, entomology, flies, fool, honesty, horseflies, Ig Nobel, intelligence, itch, liars, lie, marketing, perception, personalities, pollution, rats, rocks, rubbber hand trick, sex, Volkswagon
The Ig Nobel Prizes honour achievements that first make us laugh, then make us think. We take a look at this year’s winners: from rats in pants to collecting flies!
Neurons found in worms that affect sexual priority, a possible Dyson sphere discovered, and life may have originated 300 million years earlier than previously thought.
SoT 201: The 2015 Ig Nobel Prizes
- October 7, 2015
- Tagged as: appendicitis, bee stings, bees, bribery, business, business leaders, cancer, ceo, chickens, dinosaurs, disasters, economics, eggs, honeybees, huh, Ig Nobel, Ig Nobels, insect stings, insects, kissing, language, law of urination, linguistics, mathematics, natural disasters, pee, protein folding, reproduction, risk-taking, sex, speed bumps, trauma, urination, urine
The Ig Nobel Prizes honour achievements that first make us laugh, then make us think. We take a look at this year’s winners: from unboiled eggs to painful bee stings!
Stephen Hawking trolls the end of the universe, the only known swimming dinosaur, how the gut microbiome affects the immune system, and sex positions for bad backs.
Evolutionary biologist Professor Rob Brooks joins us to talk beards, crying babies, tsetse flies, dolphins and more!
Blinky the mutant crab, specific man-made actions linked to climate change, baby immune systems, asteroids, insect sex and more!