The Harvard Writers at Work Lecture Series presents Strange Science: A Talk by Marc Abrahams, author of This is Improbable Too: Synchronized Cows, Speedy Brain Extractors, and More WTF Research.
Tuesday, October 28 @ 7:30 pm
Thompson Room, Barker Center
Free and open to the public
Science writer Marc Abrahams is founder of the Ig Nobel Prizes, which annually honor unusual and hilarious scientific achievements. He is editor of the science humor magazine Annals of Improbable Research; a columnist for The Guardian newspaper; and author of the books This is Improbable: Cheese String Theory, Magnetic Chickens, and Other WTF Research and This is Improbable Too: Synchronized Cows, Speedy Brain Extractors and More WTF Research.
Join us as Abrahams discusses the joys and challenges of writing about research that makes people LAUGH, then THINK.