20th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony

The 2010 Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony took place on Thursday, September 30th at Sanders Theater, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Ceremony details: http://improbable.com/ig/2010/
Winners: http://improbable.com/ig/winners/#ig2010
Other participants: http://improbable.com/ig/2010/ignitaries/

How & Why to Write a Bacterial Opera:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2010/10/12/how-why-to-write-a-bac...

TIMECODES FOR PARTICULAR IG HIGHLIGHTS
(NB: YouTube does not currently support timecodes past 60 minutes. Our apologies.)

Pre-ceremony concert of depressing Russian classical music (DEBORAH HENSON-CONANT)
(0:00)

The ceremony begins
(7:00)

Parade of the audience delegations (introduced by KAREN HOPKIN)
(11:00)

Introduction of the Nobel Laureates and Other Personages (MARC ABRAHAMS introduces SHELDON GLASHOW, ROY GLAUBER, FRANK WILCZEK, JAMES MULLER, WILLIAM LIPSCOMB, JEROME FRIEDMAN, et al.)
(17:00)

Traditional Welcome Welcome Speech
(23:00)

Microbial concert (EVELYN EVELYN — AMANDA PALMER & JASON WEBLEY, with NEIL GAIMAN)
(24:00)

Return of Past Ig Nobel Prize winners( CHRISTOPHER CHABRIS, TOSHIYUKI NAKAGAKI & ATSUSHI TERO, DON FEATHERSTONE, FRANCIS FESMIRE, DAN ARIELY, KEES MOELIKER, ELENA BODNAR, DR. NAKAMATSU)
(34:00)

Keynote Address (RICHARD LOSICK)
(46:00)

Engineering Prize
(50:00)

Medicine Prize
(52:00)

The Bacterial Opera — Act 1 (MARIA FERRANTE, BEN SEARS, ROBERTA GILBERT, THOMAS MICHEL, JENNY GUTBEZAHL, BRANDEN GRIMMETT, MAESTRO DAVID STOCKTON)
(54:30)

Transportation Planning Prize
(64:00 / 1:04:00)

The Bacterial Opera — Act 2
(67:20 / 1:07:20)

Physics Prize
(71:00 / 1:11:00)

The 24/7 Lectures (TOSHIYUKI NAKAGAKI, MARY ELLEN DAVEY, NEIL GAIMAN)
(74:00 / 1:14:00)

Peace Prize
(78:00 / 1:18:00)

Public Health Prize
(82:00 / 1:22:00)

The Bacterial Opera — Act 3
(89:10 / 1:29:10)

Economics Prize
(94:00 / 1:34:00)

Chemistry Prize
(95:00 / 1:35:00)

The Big Question (FRANK WILCZEK, SHELDON GLASHOW, DR. NAKAMATSU)
(97:00 / 1:37:00)

The Win-a-Date-With-a-Nobel-Laureate Contest
(101:00 / 1:41:00)

Management Prize
(103:00 1:43:00)

Biology Prize
(106:00 / 1:46:00)

Ceremonial Handshake With Professor Lipscomb
(109:00 / 1:49:00)

The Bacterial Opera - Act 4
(112:00 / 1:52:00)

Traditional Goodbye Goodbye Speech
(121:00 / 2:01:00)

Category:

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[xvzw]

This year it took place in Fez, Morocco

[ImprobableResearch]

@xvzw What? No, it took place, as it has for many years, at Sanders Theatre at Harvard University.

[Nomming]

EVELYN EVELYN, FTW!

[adelle0001]

ano ba yan!



[BEPOLITEFORLIVING]

PEACE

您沒有錯

我是對的

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[wreckedpc]

lame jokes

[MeneerTiki]

uuurgh. Yesch, oyeflaven, we have now dissected humour and found the funny bone, too bad the laughter died as we cut it open, but we learned a lot from our research.

Hey Raymond did you make a joke? Yah, a joke. Uh oh uh oh.

[xvzw]

@ImprobableResearch Sorry, I meant it will take place in Morocco, May 1-3 (if that is about the Nobel Prize)

[Puflwiz1]

ELEPHANT

[Deadman1709]

@FreedomInAmerica Henry Kissinger (and Le Duc Tho, but he refused it) got a peace award by help ending a war that killed millions (and preceded by bombing the shit out of North Vietnam shortly earlier).

The UN itself got a few by doing peace keeping missions, which include shooting people. And BTW, some peace keeping mission just failed.

Yasser Arafat got one for the Oslo accord, which was supposed to stop the war; and it totally didn't.

The Peace award is kinda ... fishy.