Improbable Research at AAAS — Saturday Night in Austin

Join us for the Improbable Research session at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting, in Austin Texas!

When: Saturday night, February 17, 8:00 pm.

Where: Hilton Austin Hotel— Salon H, Austin, Texas

The event will include will include:

Marc Abrahams , founder of the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony
Ig Nobel Prize winner  Alex Suarez  (Zurich, Switzerland)—Using a didgeridoo to treat sleep apnea and snoring
Robert Kirshner  (Harvard U)—The Universe
Ig Nobel Prize winner  Liza Shapiro   (U Texas)—Why pregnant women don’t tip over
Bill Press  (U Texas, and past president of the AAAS) and John Hawkins (U Texas)—Comparative genomics of rubber chicken
Ed Theriot  (Texas Memorial Museum, U Texas)—The taxonomy of Barney
The Committee of Reporters who Receive and Appreciate Press Releases will announce its selection of the  Outstanding Press Release of the Year

This special session is open to the public, free of charge. This is the twenty-somethingth year we’ve done this kind of event at the AAAS meeting. It always draws an overflow crowd. So… we suggest you arrive a little early, to ensure finding a seat.

Here’s an image from one of the Ig Nobel Prize-winning studies we will discuss. The study asks the question “Can a cat be both a solid and a liquid?”