Science Friday day-after-Thanksgiving Ig Nobel Prize special broadcast

Please join us on Friday, November 14, 2023, for this year’s Science Friday day-after-Thanksgiving Ig Nobel Prize special broadcast.

To many people, the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony — each year honoring ten things that make people LAUGH then THINK — is an annual radio event, surprising stuff and people that pour out of the radio on the day after Thanksgiving.

The ceremony itself actually happens a little earlier in the year — the first four years (1991-1994) at the Massachusetts Institute of technology (MIT), the next 25 (1995-2019) years at Harvard University, and these past four pandemic years (2020-2023) happening entirely on the internet. We have high hopes that next year, 2024, we can return to having the ceremony in a large theater.

(Fun fact: Science Friday began doing a day-after-Thanksgiving Ig Nobel Prize special broadcast in 1992. This year’s broadcast of the 33rd First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony will be the 32nd annual Science Friday day-after-Thanksgiving Ig Nobel Prize special broadcast.)

WHEN: Friday, November 24, 2023. This will be hour 1 of the week’s two-hour Scifri broadcast — in most cities that will be at 2 pm. [But check the time on your local public radio station schedule.]