After seeing my mother we rushed to Rotterdam (140 km by bus, train and tram) to attend the opening of the European Bureau for Improbable Research in Rotterdam’s Museum of Natural History.
Marc Abrahams, the editor in chief of the Annals of Improbable Research, hosted a very entertaining evening about a variety of research topics, all of them rewarded with the alternative Nobel prize, the IgNobel prize. We both hugely enjoyed the evening, especially because all the lectures where very short and even Alison, fresh out of Canada, had no trouble to stay awake. Afterwards though, when we just chatted a little with each-other, I missed Alison and found her fast asleep next to a stuffed orangutang.
If you want to get an impression of the (very funny) evening, you can find a 60 minute video registration on a Dutch science weblog.
May 19 2006
Improbable
After seeing my mother we rushed to Rotterdam (140 km by bus, train and tram) to attend the opening of the European Bureau for Improbable Research in Rotterdam’s Museum of Natural History.
Marc Abrahams, the editor in chief of the Annals of Improbable Research, hosted a very entertaining evening about a variety of research topics, all of them rewarded with the alternative Nobel prize, the IgNobel prize. We both hugely enjoyed the evening, especially because all the lectures where very short and even Alison, fresh out of Canada, had no trouble to stay awake. Afterwards though, when we just chatted a little with each-other, I missed Alison and found her fast asleep next to a stuffed orangutang.
If you want to get an impression of the (very funny) evening, you can find a 60 minute video registration on a Dutch science weblog.
By mare • english •