The IgNobel Roadshow with Marc Abrahams

Live tweets from the #IgNobel Show with @marcabrahams, 6pm 15 March 2013 @imperialcollege

  1. Last year's gong girl efforts - http://youtu.be/9Qn3ZTmRHJo?t=36m38s #ignobel #improbableresearch
  2. Heading in to London for #ignobel event at Imperial College, silently squeeing on train (quiet carriage).
  3. Welcome from Prof Andrew George, Head of @imperialcollege Graduate School at #IgNobel Show.
  4. .@MarcAbrahams throwing copies of the Annals of @improbresearch into the audience at #IgNobel Traditional method of distribution.
  5. .@SidRodrigues to sit motionless doing nothing for 90 minutes. Speakers: Richard Stevens, Ian Day, Sante Rodrigues, James Harking,...
  6. Bad spelling. Correct names: Santi Rodriguez and James Harkin
  7. The Annals of Improbable Research @improbresearch started the #IgNobel Prizes that make people laugh and then make people think.
  8. 10 #IgNobel Prizes awarded every year since 1991. 9,000 nominations a year. 10-20% self nominate who almost always don't win.
  9. If offered an #IgNobel & refuse, it's as if the conversation never happened. Remarkably few refuse. Prizes is cheap & changes each year.
  10. Very pleased to be at the #ignobel prize awards. The prize looks amazing.
  11. The 2012 Prize was a piece of wood attached to an hourglass.
  12. If #IgNobel winners talk too long, Miss Sweety-Poo will stand in front of the speaker & chant "stop talking, I'm bored". This works.
  13. The #ignobels. I'm dying. DYING! (Also i am sure of it now... It's official... I'm in love with Marc Abrahams *sigh*)

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