Annual special Improbable Research session at AAAS 2008
去年、「Mankiw's Ten Principles of Economics, Translated & Subtitled」そして「Chicken Chicken Chicken」で爆笑の渦を巻き起こしたImprobable Research (Ig Nobel賞の主催団体) のSpecial Session。今年のAAASでもあるそうです。
AAAS Annual Meeting, Boston, MA
Feb. 15, 2008, Friday, 8:00PM
Sheraton Boston Hotel, Republic A room.
Open to the public–free.
今年の演題は、
Gauri Nanda (Ig Nobel Prize winner)
”Inventor of Clocky, the alarm clock that runs away and hides repeatedly”
Deborah Henson-Conant & Steve Hadis (Museum of Burnt Food curator)
”Just How Many Holy Grails of Science Are There?”
Gus Rancatore (Toscanini’s Ice Cream Propriety)
”Ig Nobel Chemistry Prize winner Mayu Yamamoto’s discovery of how to extract vanillin from cow dung—and applications of this for making delicious ice cream”
Gus Rancatore
”The 89th Anniversary of the Great Boston Molasses Flood”
Elaine Chew
”A technical analysis of the music of P.D.Q. Bach”
このImprobable Researchの標語がきまってる。
「Research that makes people LAUGH and then THINK」。
Enjoy!
