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Episode #1074: “Vibrate That Earthworm”
Improbable Research
English - June 27, 2021 16:00 - 6 minutes - 9.12 MB - ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsScience Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: Episode 1073: “Smelly People in the Office”
Next Episode: Episode #1075: “The Rheology of Cats”
The Ig Nobel Prizes honor achievements that make people LAUGH, then THINK.
In the Ig Informal Lectures, some days after the ceremony, the new Ig Nobel Prize winners attempt to explain what they did, and why they did it.
In Podcast Episode #1074, Marc Abrahams presents the 2020 Ig Nobel Prize winner for Physics was awarded to Ivan Maksymov and Andriy Pototsky. They received the prize for determining, experimentally, what happens to the shape of a living earthworm when one vibrates the earthworm at high frequency.
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