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| A live frog levitates inside the Ø32mm vertical bore of a Bitter solenoid in a magnetic field of about 16 tesla at the Nijmegen High Field Magnet Laboratory http://www.hfml.ru.nl/froglev.html. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
How can herring farts in the Stockholm archipelago almost lead to a diplomatic crisis? Or a bra be converted into a gas mask in case of emergency? To Magnus Wahlberg this is everyday stuff, and proof that science doesn't have to be dull to be important. He is a biologist and Scandinavian desk chief of the science humor magazine Annals of improbable research, and has himself been awarded the Ig Nobel Prize (for those herring farts). It is an alternative Nobel Prize that honors achievements that first make people laugh, and then think. With his speech, Magnus wants us to do just that.
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