by Len Fisher | 3 Oct 1999 | Food & Gastronomy: Media and Writing, IgNobel Prize
One of many newspaper stories that appeared at the time when I received an IgNobel Prize. Most were friendly, and showed recognition that this was a serious effort to make science accessible by showing how scientists think about the little problems of everyday life.... by Len Fisher | 2 Oct 1999 | Food & Gastronomy: Media and Writing, IgNobel Prize
Times Another media story about the IgNobel Prize, and using my quote “One way to make science accessible is by talking about the science of the familiar”. View image of article by Len Fisher | 2 Oct 1999 | IgNobel Prize
BBC Radio News, October 1999 Journalists had a funny feeling about Len Fisher when they visited the Englishman’s Bristol University laboratory. Anyone who spends that much time and effort researching the best way to dunk a biscuit in a cup of tea has to be in... by Len Fisher | 2 Oct 1999 | IgNobel Prize, Think Like a Scientist: Media and Writing
Times Higher Education Supplement Summary This article, published in the Times Higher Education Supplement in October 1999, was one of my first in which I advanced the proposition that science belongs along with literature, philosophy and art in our culture as a way... by Len Fisher | 1 Oct 1999 | IgNobel Prize, Think Like a Scientist: Media and Writing
New Scientist, October 1999 Feedback (9 October) is delighted with my Ig Nobel prize for the physics of biscuit dunking. So am I. As I pointed out in my acceptance speech at Harvard, this was the first British win at a Boston Tea Party for over two hundred years. A...