The 2023 IG NOBEL FACE-TO-FACE event
Channel: Improbable Research
Date: 2024-02-06

The 2023 IG NOBEL FACE-TO-FACE event
held at the MIT Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, November 11, 2023

BACKGROUND: Ten new Ig Nobel Prizes are awarded every year, for things that make people LAUGH, then THINK

THIS EVENT: In this Ig Nobel Face-to-Face event, most of the new winners gathered in one room, to ask each other questions about their work

The discussions were shepherded by:
• MARC ABRAHAMS, founder of the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, and editor of the Annals of Improbable Research
• KAREN HOPKIN, biochemist, coauthor of the textbook Essential Cell Biology, and creator of the Studmuffins of Science calendar
• DANY ADAMS, pioneer in the field of bioelectricity, and Chief Science Officer of Lucell Diagnostics
• ERIC MASKIN, professor of economics at Harvard University, and Nobel laureate in economics

RELATED INFO
List of all the Ig Nobel Prize winners: https://improbable.com/ig/winners/
The 2023 Ig Nobel Prize ceremony: https://improbable.com/ig/2023-ceremony/

Produced by Improbable Research, in collaboration with the MIT Museum. Video by Seven Generations Video.


SEGMENTS IN THIS VIDEO:

00:00 - The traditional Ig Nobel "Welcome, Welcome" speech — delivered by KATHRYN GUNSCH, assistant director of the MIT Museum

03:52 -First of the four discussion groups:
06:15 • CHRISTINE PHAM, 1 MIN INTRO, co-winner of the Ig Nobel Medicine Prize — for using cadavers to explore whether there is an equal number of hairs in each of a person's two nostrils
07:13 • CHRIS MOULIN, 1 MIN INTRO, co-winner of the Ig Nobel Literature Prize— for studying the sensations people feel when they repeat a single word many, many, many, many, many, many, many times
08:23 • BIEITO FERNÁNDEZ CASTRO, 1 MIN INTRO, co-winner of the Ig Nobel Physics Prize — for measuring the extent to which ocean-water mixing is affected by the sexual activity of anchovies 
09:38 - First group discussion

24:10 - Second of the four discussion groups:
26:39 • KATY TAM, 1 MIN INTRO, co-winner of the Ig Nobel Education Prize — for methodically studying the boredom of teachers and students
• MIGUEL GILCOTO, co-winner of the Ig Nobel Physics Prize — for measuring the extent to which ocean-water mixing is affected by the sexual activity of anchovies
27:41 • ADOLFO GARCÍA, 1 MIN INTRO, co-winner of the Ig Nobel Communication Prize — for studying the mental activities of people who are expert at speaking backward
28:57 - Second group discussion

44:03 - Third of the four discussion groups:
46:37 • TE FAYE YAP, 1 MIN INTRO, co-winner of the Ig Nobel Mechanical Engineering Prize — for re-animating dead spiders to use as mechanical gripping tools
• AKIRA O'CONNOR, co-winner of the Ig Nobel Literature Prize — for studying the sensations people feel when they repeat a single word many, many, many, many, many, many, many times
47:33 • HOMEI MIYASHITA, 1 MIN INTRO, co-winner of the Ig Nobel Nutrition Prize winner  — for experiments to determine how electrified chopsticks and drinking straws can change the taste of food
48:45 - Third group discussion

1:04:01 Fourth of the four discussion groups:
• NATASHA MESINKOVSKA, co-winner of the Ig Nobel Medicine Prize — for using cadavers to explore whether there is an equal number of hairs in each of a person's two nostrils.
• DANIEL PRESTON, co-winner of the Ig Nobel Mechanical Engineering Prize — for re-animating dead spiders to use as mechanical gripping tools
• CHRISTIAN CHAN, co-winner of the Ig Nobel Education Prize — for methodically studying the boredom of teachers and students
1:06:05 • SEUNG-MIN PARK, 1 MIN INTRO, co-winner of the Ig Nobel Public Health Prize — for inventing the Stanford Toilet, a device that uses a variety of technologies — including a urinalysis dipstick test strip, a computer vision system for defecation analysis, an anal-print sensor paired with an identification camera, and a telecommunications link — to monitor and quickly analyze the substances that humans excrete
1:08:47 - Fourth group discussion

1:23:59 - Thank you
1:26:06 - Pointless photo op
1:27:10 - Group recitation of "The"


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