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The Ig Nobel Prizes and Improbable Research
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-10-11)
The Ig Nobel Prizes honor achievements that make people LAUGH, then THINK. Ten new prizes have been awarded every year since 1991, in gala ceremonies at Harvard and MIT, with winners traveling from around the world, and ...
The Square Kilometre Array: Big Telescope, Big Science, Big Data
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-01-23)
The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is a next generation global radio telescope currently undergoing final design by a collaboration of institutions in 11 countries. The SKA will be one of the largest scientific projects ever ...
Sex, Flies and Video: Communicating Science to the Public in Words and Images
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-03-27)
Scientists and journalists have similar, but not identical interests in getting information about their work to the public in an appealing, but accurate way. James Gorman will draw on his experience as a New York Times ...
How to Become a Better Cook by Bringing Science to the Kitchen
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2014-11-12)
In this talk, we will bring parallels of science and cooking to the fore. Using a wide
variety of kitchen cooking techniques whose inner workings on the molecular
level can be explained through chemistry and physics we ...
From Urination to Georgia Tech's First Ig Nobel Prize
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-10-19)
How long does an elephant urinate? How quickly does a dog shake? How many eyelashes does a camel have? Asking a new and sometimes strange question is arguably the most important step in advancing science, and not any less ...