Dramatic Improbable Research Readings, with Marc Abrahams

About Science in the City FestivalTo celebrate Manchester being the first UK city to be designated European City of Science, a free week-long festival (22-29 July) is taking place alongside the EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF). There are events for all ages including workshops, performances and experiences celebrating the latest developments in science, technology and engineering.

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Marc Abrahams, founder of the Ig Nobel prizes, will be joined by special guests Brian Schmidt, winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics, and Elisabeth Oberzaucher, winner of the 2015 Mathematics Ig Nobel Prize to dramatically read weird and wonderful prose from Ig Nobel Prize winning research papers – laughs guaranteed.
Marc is the founder and Master of Ceremonies of the Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony. The Ig Nobel Prizes honor achievements that make people LAUGH, and then THINK. The prizes are intended to celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative — and spur people's interest in science, medicine, and technology. 
The Washington Post called Marc "the nation's guru of academic grunge” and The Guardian said Marc's writing is "rationalism taken to intoxicating extremes". 
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