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It's an all Huckleberry episode.  The You Tried Dat?? crew tastes Huckleberry Suckers, Yellowstone Wild Huckleberry Salt Water Taffy, and Huckleberry Haven Chocolate Covered Huckleberries.  They also discuss the Ig Nobel Awards before learning about some truly bad dates. Follow us on Instagram to see pictures of the snacks @youtrieddat.

The Ig Nobel awards were recently announced.  Michael Edwards will join us to talk about his favourite improbable science winners

This Sunday, it's time for our annual Ig Nobel Awards celebration - the annual prize ceremony that celebrates research that spurs interest in science.  The whole list of research can be found at Past Ig Winners (improbable.com) but among Dr Michelle Dickinson's favourites, the winners were:  A team that showed how the hair on your head swirls in a different direction depending on whether you live in the northern or southern hemisphere.  Research looking at how defrosted, dead fish swim.  How placing a cat on the back of a cow and then popping bags every 10 seconds to stress out a cow might affect its milk production.  How some mammals (including humans) can breathe through their bum!  LISTEN ABOVE  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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We've all heard of The Nobel Peace prize and the Nobel Literature prize, Science, and Medicine prizes. Well, this episode has absolutely nothing to do with any of that! But! If you come up with an idea that is an unusual or trivial or a bizarre achievement in scientific research, well then…we have an award for you. It's called the Ig Nobel Prize, and anyone can win it, if their idea makes you laugh…and then… makes you think! Really, no really! The Prize was created by today's guest, Marc Abrahams who has awarded it annually since 1991. And the awards are handed out annually by genuine Nobel laureates, as they honor and celebrate the unusual, the creative and the imaginative… while also spurring people's interest in science, medicine, and technology. So be prepared to learn about woodpeckers and concussions, an unusual childbirth device and the importance of fish farts. That's right… fish farts! IN THIS EPISODE: The unbelievable way Marc first became editor of a scientific magazine. Amusing inventors & scientists doing obscure, yet noble things should be honored. Right? The scientists who defied a Prime Minister and proved the impending submarine invasion was not happening. Meet the guy who studied whether gonorrhea could be transmitted by sex dolls. Colonoscopy researchers won the Ig Nobel twice and performed a live on-stage demonstration you won't believe. The Blonsky centrifugal birthing device will defy your understanding of natural childbirth. Why don't woodpeckers get concussions and how that applies to football. Your foot size to genitalia size ratio is… real? Jason has some “genius ideas” he thinks should win an Ig Nobel. The small but notable list of inventors who were killed by their inventions. GOOGLEHEIM: Have any nobility won the Nobel Prize? Yep! *** FOLLOW MARC: Website – Improbable.com Ig Nobel Prize 2024 Mastodon - @MarcAbrams Facebook - Marc Abrahams Podcast – Improbable Research *** FOLLOW REALLY NO REALLY: www.reallynoreally.com Instagram YouTube TikTok Facebook Threads XSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Researchers have identified seven lifestyle factors that are most correlated with depression. We review them on this show! And did you know that the official state 'mineral' in Kentucky (coal) is actually a 'rock', and the official state 'rock' (agate) is actually a 'mineral'? Hear about the move in the KY Legislature to fix this geological error. Finally, hear about the 2023 Ig Nobel Prize ceremony which humorously celebrates out-of-the-ordinary research. ‘Bench Talk: The Week in Science' is a weekly program that airs on WFMP Louisville FORward Radio 106.5 FM (forwardradio.org) every Monday at 7:30 pm, Tuesday at 11:30 am, and Wednesday at 7:30 am. Visit our Facebook page for links to the articles discussed in this episode: https://www.facebook.com/pg/BenchTalkRadio/posts/?ref=page_internal Many thanks to Kentucky Educational Television for permission to rebroadcast a portion of their Feb. 22, 2024 episode of 'Kentucky Edition' with Renee Shaw: https://ket.org/program/kentucky-edition/state-rock/ Many thanks to the Ig Nobel Prize folks for permission to rebroadcast part of their 2023 ceremony: https://improbable.com/ig/2023-ceremony/#Ig-Ceremony-2023

Join Jeff & Jeff as they explore new beers and discuss some of the more entertaining Ig Nobel awards. 

For Michael Edwards, it's the most wonderful time of the year. The winners of the 2023 Ig Nobel prizes have been announced. He joins us to talk about some truly improbable research.

The Stuph File Program Featuring Marc Abrahams, editor of Annals Of Improbable Research; bridesmaid dress wearing Rebecca Whitlinger; & relationship coach Frank Kermit Download Marc Abrahams, editor of the Annals Of Improbable Research is back on the show. Each year they hand out the Ig Nobel Awards and this year's version was the 33rd. Rebecca Whitlinger is one of those rare women who not only got to wear her bridesmaid dress more than once, she's worn it in many different circumstances and in many parts of the world, ever since she first wore it just six months after the wedding, back in 1988. Relationship coach, Frank Kermit, is back on the show to talk about long distance relationships, what makes them work and what doesn't. Now you can listen to selected items from The Stuph File Program on the new audio service, Audea. A great way to keep up with many of the interviews from the show and take a trip down memory lane to when this show began back in 2009, with over 800 selections to choose from! This week's guest slate is presented by psychotherapist Richard Rapoport. He used to be a regular guest on my old radio show in a segment we called Shrink Rap. Richard currently does yeoman work as he continues to work with military, vets and RCMP for Health Canada and doing research and speaking at conferences on "moral injury".

The first leader's debate of the campaign - Tova O'Brien assesses how well the two Chris's went. The four year Russell Brand investigation by media, the Ig Nobel science award for inventions that make you laugh, then think plus the art installation that could be a crime.

It's my favourite time of year again – the annual Ig Noble Awards for improbable science have just been awarded.  Here are my favourite three winners:  This year's engineering prize went to a team from Texas Rice University who pumped the corpses of dead wolf spiders with air to uncurl their legs then use them as a gripper to lift objects. They found that they were able to lift 130 percent of their own bodyweight and even switch off an LED light with the corpse grabber.  The nightmarish video of the spider grippers can be viewed here. The prize for medicine went to a group from the University of California who counted nose hairs in cadavers. After counting each individual nasal hair in the corpses of 20 men and women they found that there was no difference in the number of hairs between genders. However, they did find that the corpses belonging to people that had suffered from cancer contained significantly less nasal hair than the average person.  The public health prize went to a group at Stanford University who designed a smart toilet that can identify its user though their ‘analprint' (yes apparently the creases around our bottom are unique to each of us).  Once the cameras identify the person using the toilet, it then analyses stools and urine through pictures and test-strips to look for signs of cancer, irritable bowel syndrome and diabetes.  The full prize list is as follows:  CHEMISTRY and GEOLOGY PRIZE  Jan Zalasiewicz, for explaining why many scientists like to lick rocks.  LITERATURE PRIZE  Chris Moulin, Nicole Bell, Merita Turunen, Arina Baharin, and Akira O'Connor for studying the sensations people feel when they repeat a single word many, many, many, many, many, many, many times.  MECHANICAL ENGINEERING PRIZE  Te Faye Yap, Zhen Liu, Anoop Rajappan, Trevor Shimokusu, and Daniel Preston, for re-animating dead spiders to use as mechanical gripping tools.  PUBLIC HEALTH PRIZE  Seung-min Park, for inventing the Stanford Toilet - a device that quickly monitors and analyses the substances that humans excrete.  COMMUNICATION PRIZE  María José Torres-Prioris, Diana López-Barroso, Estela Càmara, Sol Fittipaldi, Lucas Sedeño, Agustín Ibáñez, Marcelo Berthier, and Adolfo García, for studying the mental activities of people who are experts at speaking backward.  MEDICINE PRIZE  Christine Pham, Bobak Hedayati, Kiana Hashemi, Ella Csuka, Tiana Mamaghani, Margit Juhasz, Jamie Wikenheiser, and Natasha Mesinkovska, for using cadavers to explore whether there is an equal number of hairs in each of a person's two nostrils.  NUTRITION PRIZE  Homei Miyashita and Hiromi Nakamura, for experiments to determine how electrified chopsticks and drinking straws can change the taste of food.  EDUCATION PRIZE  Katy Tam, Cyanea Poon, Victoria Hui, Wijnand van Tilburg, Christy Wong, Vivian Kwong, Gigi Yuen, and Christian Chan, for methodically studying the boredom of teachers and students.  PSYCHOLOGY PRIZE  Stanley Milgram, Leonard Bickman, and Lawrence Berkowitz for experiments on a city street to see how many passers-by stop to look upward when they see strangers looking upward  PHYSICS PRIZE  Bieito Fernández Castro, Marian Peña, Enrique Nogueira, Miguel Gilcoto, Esperanza Broullón, Antonio Comesaña, Damien Bouffard, Alberto C. Naveira Garabato, and Beatriz Mouriño-Carballido, for measuring the extent to which ocean-water mixing is affected by the sexual activity of anchovies.  LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

An update on the 32nd Ig Nobel Awards, and a Loch Ness roller coaster.Theme song written & performed by Miquela DeLeón and Gil Davis.

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PHIL It's Friday and you know that can only mean one thing: it's Five in the Eye day! I'm Phil Woodford, this is episode 0376 and, of course, you're listening to Colourful Radio. MICHAEL And this is me - Michael Ohajuru - joining Phil and revealing that our top story this week is the plans of the government to create low-tax zones in the UK to encourage investment and growth? Free-market madness? Or a radical way of levelling up? PHIL Our second story is the extraordinary spectacle of the funeral on Monday for Queen Elizabeth. A remarkable show of pageantry, but what exactly does it tell us about what it means to be British? MICHAEL And what's story number three this week? Well, we've discovered that many of the flags to commemorate the Queen were being made in China. Should we care where our merch comes from? PHIL For story number four, we look at a poll that says King Charles is surprisingly popular. But apparently, he's scared of cling film! More later! MICHAEL And to wrap up the show this week, it's the Ig Nobel Awards - the prizes for particularly weird and wonderful pieces of academic research. Their criteria for judging is that the particular study ‘first makes you laugh, then makes you think'. PHIL They could be talking about your favourite news review show. That's this week's Five in the Eye! ++++

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Every year the world scientific community recognises some of the truly out there research with the "Ig Nobel" Awards. Previous winners have gone on to win Nobels - Dr Karl even won one with research into the colour of belly button fluff (spoiler alert - it's usually blue) Holmsey and Jen speak with Jacinta Bowler, a journalist with Cosmos Magazine, about the 2022 Winners. The topics this year include gossip, legalese, constipated scorpions and crash test moose. The prize for winning an "Ig Nobel"? Let's just say it is an unbelievable amount of money.

Authorities say that most of the bodies found at a mass burial site belong to civilians. The United Nations has now said it wants to send its own team to the site, to investigate what happened. Also on the programme, nearly 200 world leaders are coming to the funeral of The Queen on Monday. How much of a diplomatic challenge will this be? And the founder of the Ig Nobel Awards for science joins us to discuss moose shaped crash test dummies, formation swimming in ducklings, and other strange scientific studies. (Picture: Ukrainian soldier inspects graves near the city of Izyum in north east Ukraine. Credit: Reuters)

John took his daughter to the football and she enjoyed it for all the wrong reasons. Sam explains a case of mistaken identity. There is a news story about the latest Ig Nobel Awards, featuring beard power and rhino safety. Plus a Top Tip and the return of The Movie Quotes Game. John is the question master, can Sam triumph and vanquish his old foe? A fun filled comedy podcast, introduced by John Maurice and Sam O'Toole. They have been comedians for years, friends for longer, and humans for longer than that. You'd be mad to miss it. Find us on Facebook, Twitter, and wherever you get your podcasts. www.johnandsaminjapan.com

Michael Edwards of Science East highlights a few winners from this year's awards celebrating improbable research.

Laugh Along At Home With The Ig Nobel Awards We know traditions are different this year. Maybe you’re having a small family dinner instead of a huge gathering. Maybe you’re just hopping on a video call instead of going over the river and through the woods. At Science Friday, our holiday tradition of broadcasting highlights from the annual Ig Nobel Awards ceremony is different this year too. Rather than being recorded live in front of a cheering crowd at Harvard’s Sanders Theater, the ceremony was virtual this year. But one thing remains the same—awards went to a bunch of genuine scientists for research that first makes you laugh, then makes you think. This year marks the ceremony’s 30th anniversary.  Marc Abrahams, editor of the science humor magazine Annals of Improbable Research and master of ceremonies for the awards, joins Ira to talk about Ig Nobel history, and to share highlights from this year’s winners. Koji: The Mold You Want In Your Kitchen When chef Jeremy Umansky grows a batch of Aspergillus oryzae, a cultured mold also known as koji, in a tray of rice, he says he’s “bewitched” by its fluffy white texture and tantalizing floral smells. When professional mechanical engineer and koji hobbyist Rich Shih thinks about the versatility of koji, from traditional Japanese sake to cured meats, he says, “It blows my mind.” Koji-inoculated starches are crucial in centuries-old Asian foods like soy sauce and miso—and, now, inspiring new and creative twists from modern culinary minds. And Shih and Umansky, the two food fanatics, have written a new book describing the near-magical workings of the fungus, which, like other molds, uses enzymes to break starches, fats, and proteins down into food for itself. It just so happens that, in the process, it’s making our food tastier.  You can grow koji on grains, vegetables, and other starchy foods, and make sauces, pastes, alcohols, and vinegars. Even cure meats. Umansky and Shih say the possibilities are endless—and they have the koji pastrami and umami popcorn to prove it. Plus, Urmansky and Shih share some of their favorite koji-inspired holiday dishes and leftover recipes—from turkey amino spreads to cranberry sauce amazake to soy sauce-infused whipped cream. Read more on Science Friday!

It’s that time of year for the annual Ig Nobel Awards to be awarded to those scientists who publish the worst, oddest, most irreproducible, or downright weird research. Joe and Rob have a hard time with this one, but only because they could not stop laughing at the squeaking alligators, narcissist unibrow quotients, and knives made from...wait, what?

This week with microbiologist Najja we talk about handedness, sea grass conservation efforts, toxoplasmosis, Ig Nobel Awards and more. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sandra-moss4/support

Michael Edwards of  Science East joins us to talk about the unusual side of science highlighted in this year's Ig Nobel Awards.

We couldn't make it to a hundred episodes without making fun of Adolf! We deep dive into Hitler's occupational shenanigans in Czechoslovakia, Netflix's viral docudrama The Social Dilemma and reveal this year's winner at The Ig-Nobel Awards. All that and more on your favorite pod. TWITTER: @BaboonYodel FACEBOOK: @BaboonYodel WEB: www.baboonyodel.com INSTAGRAM: BaboonYodel

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We all know that some people find clowns creepy – and funeral directors as well as taxidermists too. But why. What is ‘creepiness’ and can it be studied? And when we encounter robots that are almost human, but not quite, why do we feel as if we’re in what’s called ‘the uncanny valley’? Our Professor of Creepy Studies (who happens to be a robot) explains. And we interview Marc Abrahams from ImprobableResearch.com (who’s also the organizer of the globally renowned Ig-Nobel Awards) to find out if even being interested in the nature of creepiness is itself… creepy.

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At last a podcast by seniors, for seniors, showing the world how we can still howl at the moon. Podnuggets: You can teach an old dog new tricks; Mickey Mouse turns 90; Millenials reject their parents' stuff; Monopoly introduces a Cheaters Version; the 2018 Ig Nobel Awards. Interview: Tony Caputo, Salt Lake City ringleader of "Old Coots Giving Advice."

How's that for a title? It's time for another peep through the keyhole of science and technology news with The Geek Show, and this week Graham joins Producer Rob for some tasty morsels of the weird and strange. Kicking things off is the rather serious news that humans are already eating microplastics - but the method of discovery is somewhat … gross. After that we discover that Elon Musk plans to make his own suburban "batcave", the meaning of #protestNIPS, a Japanese company that rewards its employees for getting a good night's sleep, the removal of Apu from The Simpsons, the link between dirty socks and malaria, some bizarre Star Wars merchandise, lighting plants in Chengdu, the Catholic alternative to Pokémon GO and more. We end the show with a look at some of the nominations and winners of the Ig Nobel Awards for 2018 (and before you ask, no - we didn't make any of them up). The Geek Show is a a mad, mad, mad, mad podcast, and if you like what you've just listened to then please share us with your friends or give us a review on iTunes. You can also support us on [Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/thegeekshow) or by visiting [The Geek Shop](http://thegeekshow.co.uk/thegeekshop/), and links to those and more can be found [on our site](http://thegeekshow.co.uk). #Podcast #Geek #TheGeekShow #Science #Technology #Culture #Weird #Comedy #IgNobelAwards #TheSimpsons #ElonMusk #StarWars #China #Japan #Batman #Catholicism #Microplastics #ProtestNIPS #Sleep #Plants #PokémonGO #DirtySocks #Malaria #News

What went down w/ the Huskers, a Conversation about "How Did You Know Your Family Wasn't Normal?", The Ig Nobel Awards & a Running of the Bull!

In this episode we cover the IG Nobel Awards for 2016, the naivete of letting the internet name things, killer goldfish, alligator eating pythons, freeze-dried medicine, an upcoming Fruit Ninja movie, LED streetlight problems, IOS security flaws, SpaceX update, Blue Origin, and the Outer Space Treaty.Links for this episode:IG Nobel Prizes 2016Hospital Holding Name Contest for new Security RobotIn the Wild, Goldfish Turn From Pet to PestPython Bursts After Eating GatorFreeze-Dried Molecules Can Be Used to Whip Up Medicines Anywhere'Fruit Ninja' Movie in the WorksLED Streetlights Are Getting a Dark ReceptionMountain Dew Naming Campaign Hijacked By Infamous Message Board 4ChaniOS 10: Security Weakness Discovered, Backup Passwords Much Easier to BreakSpaceX investigation suggests helium breach caused its Falcon 9 explosionBlue OriginOuter Space Treaty

Digital images revealed (pixels, resolution, DPI, compression), Android ransomware (Lockerpin.A), iOS9 ad blockers (Blockr, Purify), Profiles in IT (Jeff Dean, creator of Googles scalable architecture), Stratford Security Workshops (CISSP, CISA, CEH), Presidential canditates on social media (Trump is most active, followeed by Carson, Sanders, Clinton), TORs anonymity network expands globally (grows from 2000 to 6425 nodes in five years), Ig Nobel Awards for silly science (awarded annually at Harvard), eBay 20 years old (started same time as Amazon), Cloud Computer history from the beginning (a walk down memory lane), and Internet in a Box (my first Internet experience at home). This show originally aired on Saturday, September 19, 2015, at 9:00 AM EST on WFED (1500 AM).

Digital images revealed (pixels, resolution, DPI, compression), Android ransomware (Lockerpin.A), iOS9 ad blockers (Blockr, Purify), Profiles in IT (Jeff Dean, creator of Googles scalable architecture), Stratford Security Workshops (CISSP, CISA, CEH), Presidential canditates on social media (Trump is most active, followeed by Carson, Sanders, Clinton), TORs anonymity network expands globally (grows from 2000 to 6425 nodes in five years), Ig Nobel Awards for silly science (awarded annually at Harvard), eBay 20 years old (started same time as Amazon), Cloud Computer history from the beginning (a walk down memory lane), and Internet in a Box (my first Internet experience at home). This show originally aired on Saturday, September 19, 2015, at 9:00 AM EST on WFED (1500 AM).

Radio Free Thinkers - Ig Nobel 2014 EditionThis week a look at some of the Ig Nobel Awards... - neuroscience prize: Seeing Jesus in toast - mental health: Is it mentally hazardous to own a cat - physics: Frictional Coefficient under Banana Skin - biology: Dogs are sensitive the Earth's magnetic field - nutrition:Infant feces used to make sausages...no, really. - aesthetic: Arts affect on pain...they use lasers!And some web wisdom.... - Pareidolia - Why we see things not really there - Taxoplasmosis - Is you cat dangerous to your health - Magnetoception - 'Seeing' magnetic wavesCheck us out online at www.radiofreethinker.com and email us at info@radiofreethinker.com and follow us on twitter at @citrrft

Bloody hell, another packed show this week. Acclaimed West Ham fan (and author) Sebastian Faulks talks to us about Cityread London. Ian and Ollie go to the Ig Nobel Awards Tour to listen to some improbable research, Erin and Candace learn about Fagin. This week only - TUBE TIPS, Ollie gives you some tips about how to maximise your time on the Underground. Music this week from Black Moth Super Rainbow, Elvis Costello and the Rolling Stones. Oh and please follow our Twitter account! All on #LondonLife - "The Sound of London" -- www.twitter.com/londonliferadio and www.twitter.com/z1radio www.ZoneOneRadio.com www.facebook.com/ZoneOneRadio

This week on "The Idiot of the Week," we're diving headfirst into a cornucopia of head-scratching absurdities that will have you questioning the very fabric of sanity. Who will claim the coveted title of the week's biggest fool? Will it be the passionate spider lovers making the pilgrimage to Colorado to witness the romantic escapades of tarantulas? (You know, just your average date night!) Or perhaps it's the lineup of ludicrous research showcased at this year's Ig Nobel Awards, including a study dedicated to whether pigeons can effectively guide missiles—because, why not?We also tackle the heroic feats of a man who managed to down a Capri Sun with a paper straw in a blistering 21.71 seconds. Is he a true champion of beverage consumption or just a misguided fool? And we can't forget the guy sporting car crash injuries after an unfortunate encounter with his own cat. Seriously, whose cat is trying to take them out?Tune in for a wild ride through the absurd, and let's crown the latest champion of idiocy together. It's an episode you won't want to miss!Fastest Time To Drink A Capri-Sun - Guinness World RecordsMan sustains broken neck, other 'car crash'-evoking injuries after tripping over kittyDo you want to hear more Idiots of the Week?? Become a Frangela patron at Patreon.com and get three exclusive Micro Idiot podcasts each week as our thank you for your support. Now in video!Frangela swag available at https://www.zazzle.com/store/frangela! Book a personalized video shout-out from Frangela at Cameo.com/frangeladuo.https://sexyliberal.com/Want IOTW in its own feed?https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/frangela-idiot-of-the-week/id1742512316Our Sponsors:* Check out Artifact Uprising and use my code FRANGELA for a great deal: www.artifactuprising.com* Check out Happy Mammoth and use my code FRANGELA for a great deal: happymammoth.com* Check out Mochi Health and use my code FRANGELA for a great deal: www.google.com* Check out Rosetta Stone and use my code TODAY for a great deal: www.rosettastone.comAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy