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Free event full of comedy science

Regular readers may already know about the Ig Nobel Prizes, which are awarded every year to scientists for the kind of research which features in the bdaily’s And Finally section. Ig Nobel winners come to the UK each year to give talks on their wonderful work, and they’re in the North East this week. At an event that seems designed purely for And Finally aficionados, the Centre for Life in Newcastle will be holding an evening of talks by Ig Nobel laureates on Friday 14 March. It’s just around the corner from bdaily Towers, so I’ve got no excuse not to be there, really…

Speakers at Life include Newcastle University’s Claire Rind and Peter Simmons who shared the 2005 Ig Nobel Peace Prize for monitoring brain activity of locusts watching Star Wars; and Brian Witcombe and Dan Meyer for their penetrating medical report, ‘Sword Swallowing and Its Side Effects’ (which tickled our fancy when we heard about it last year).

A full list of speakers and their topics, including (and I kid you not) ‘the first scientifically recorded case of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard duck’, can be found at the Centre for Life website.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .