Please join us on Friday, November 29, 2024, for this year’s Science Friday day-after-Thanksgiving Ig Nobel Prize highlights broadcast.
To many people, the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony — each year honoring ten things that make people LAUGH then THINK — is an annual radio event, surprising stuff and people that pour out of the radio on the day after Thanksgiving.
The ceremony itself actually happens a little earlier in the year.
Here’s some history of the ceremony: The first four ceremonies (1991-1994) took place at the Massachusetts Institute of technology (MIT), the next 25 (1995-2019) at Harvard University, and the four pandemic year ceremonies (2020-2023) happened entirely on the internet. In 2024, the ceremony returned to MIT, with everyone gathered in a large lecture hall.
(Fun fact: Science Friday began doing a day-after-Thanksgiving Ig Nobel Prize special broadcast in 1992. This year’s broadcast of the 34th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony will be the 33rd annual Science Friday day-after-Thanksgiving Ig Nobel Prize special broadcast.)
WHEN: Friday, November 24, 2023. This will be hour 2 of the week’s two-hour Scifri broadcast — in most cities that will be at 3 pm. [But check the time on your local public radio station schedule. You can also listen to it on the internet, via the SciFri web site.]
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