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SUMMARY:This Shouldn’t Work
DESCRIPTION:Some questions begin as mistakes. Others refuse to remain so. \nThis unusual morning draws from the book Unruly: The Ig Nobel Prizes and the Science That Refuses to Behave to undress questions better left hidden. Questions like why don’t woodpeckers get headaches and who is behind this nonsense and at what point does a bad idea become an interesting one? \nThe Ig Nobel Prizes honour research that first makes people laugh\, and then makes them think: studies that often begin with questions that seem trivial\, absurd\, or oddly specific\, but reveal something deeper about how the world works. Unruly follows this peculiar corner of science through exclusive conversations with the researchers behind such work\, tracing how ideas take shape when allowed to wander off course. It is less a catalogue of science than an exploration of the human instinct to pick up an unlikely thread and see where it leads. \nMarc Abrahams\, the Ig Nobel world\, and the researchers behind it who ask questions most of us wouldn’t dare to take seriously\, and in doing so\, expand what our world can be.  \nThis Shouldn’t Work moves through a reading from the book that may or may not be recyclable\, a life-altering quiz\, a staged “interview” that blurs reality\, and a paper-plane contest with questionable ethics.  \nThe author of the book will be present. There is a non-zero chance she will be wearing a shark costume. There may be digressions. Not everything will resolve. Some things may go slightly off course. Somewhere in the middle of all this\, something in you shifts forever! \n
URL:https://bangaloreinternationalcentre.org/event/this-shouldnt-work/
LOCATION:Bangalore International Centre\, 7\, 4th Main Road\, Domlur II Stage\, Bangalore\, Karnataka\, 560071\, India
CATEGORIES:Books,History,Nonfiction,Science,Society
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