| The 2010 Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony took place on Thursday, September 30th at Sanders Theater, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Ceremony details: improbable.com Winners: improbable.com Other participants: improbable.com How & Why to Write a Bacterial Opera: blogs.discovermagazine.com 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 ... |