Boston Skeptics in the Pub: April 21!

[rebecca]

Last month's event was so much fun, we had to do it again! This time, join the famed and justly popular Marc Abrahams as he discusses "Improbable Research and the Ig Nobel Prizes."

This is a free event where critical thinkers of all stripes are invited to gather together, talk, drink, socialize, and maybe accidentally learn something. We filled the joint up last time, so get there early for prime seating!

Marc's bio is at
http://improbable.com/navstrip/airshows/airshows.html#marc
but here's a taste:

Marc Abrahams is editor and co-founder of the science humor magazine Annals of Improbable Research (AIR) and its web site, www.improbable.com. He writes about research that makes people LAUGH, and then THINK.

Marc is the father and master of ceremonies of the Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, honoring achievements that make people LAUGH, and then make THINK. The Prizes are handed out by genuine Nobel Laureates at a gala ceremony held each October at Harvard University and broadcast on National Public Radio and on the Internet.

Monday, April 21, 2008
7:00 PM

Asgard
350 Mass. Ave.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
42.3627, -71.0995

 

[kittynh]

ohhh, now this one I may be able to make! I needed an excuse to invade Kittens place.

 

[seismic_cowgirl]

I'll try to make it but I may be walking in late because of traffic and I don't usually get out of work before 5:30PM*. Oh and I can't drink... need to be sober to be able to find my way back to I-93 south.

*I will be driving up from the Cape.

 

[supercorgi]

OK, This one I'll be at (if mom doesn't need any more heart surgery type things!). Looking forward to seeing all you heathens!

 

[Mattfn]

Ok, two more in!

Always up for something improbable!

 

[ShowerComic]

Yeah -- This is one I can make. --

 

[sadluxation]

Oh cool!
Don't ask Marc why it's called the IgNobels though. He gets a bit irate if people can't work out his lame puns.

 

[rebecca]

Oh cool!
Don't ask Marc why it's called the IgNobels though. He gets a bit irate if people can't work out his lame puns.

Like that time I asked you about your username? And you explained it and I said, "But that doesn't make sense, shouldn't it rhyme or something?"

 

[sadluxation]

Like that time I asked you about your username? And you explained it and I said, "But that doesn't make sense, shouldn't it rhyme or something?"

Did I ever tell you that you're so gifted and talented?

 

[rebecca]

Did I ever tell you that you're so gifted and talented?

Doors work differently in England and it's not my fault.

 

[Mattfn]

Revision......

If not carrying the plague, I'm still planning on coming. Looking good at the moment for me anyway, reassessment will occur all thru tomorrow.

 

[sadluxation]

Good job with the video btw.

 

[seismic_cowgirl]

What video?

 

[sadluxation]

This one...

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4506496747144149427&hl=en

 

[seismic_cowgirl]

Whew, that was close... I'm totally off camera.