ZME Science interviewed Ig Nobel Prize winner Kees Moeliker, about how Moeliker discovered the existence of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard duck. This ornithological interview happened at the Falling Walls Science Summit, in Berlin, on November 7, 2025.
This historic Ig Nobel Favorite Moment video stars Sarah Redmond & Dan Gillingwater, who performed musically in many Ig Nobel events in London, including this opera premiere in 2015. (The Ig Nobel Prizes honor achievements that make people LAUGH, then THINK. As does this artisticized saga of the duck.) Coordinator, Narrator, & Typist: Seth Gliksman Here […]
Ig Nobel Prize winners will gather on stage to ask each other questions about their work, in the Ig Nobel Face-to-Face event on Thursday, November 6, 2025. It’s part of the Falling Walls Science Summit, Berlin, Germany, on the main stage. Ig Nobel Prizes honor achievements so surprising that they make people LAUGH, then THINK. […]
An inspired description from a veterinary tech who has just discovered Dead Duck Day: @h717p4r3 Dead duck day is celebrated to commemorate the billions of birds that collide with windows annually worldwide wide and to try to figure out a way to solve this problem. Kees Moeliker is the ornithologist who documented this case and […]