LSC Event Descriptions

October 4, 2003

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The Ig Informal Lectures
October 4, 2003 at 1:00pm in 54-100.

A half-afternoon of improbably funny, informative, brief (10-15 minutes each), high-spirited public lectures:

  • The 2003 Ig Nobel Prize winners will attempt to explain what they did and why they did it
  • Edward A. Murphy III will describe how his father and a small group of other remarkable persons gave birth to Murphy's Law. NOTE: Mr. Murphy will also show a brief videotape in which his father, Edward A. Murphy, Jr., explains Murphy's Law.
  • Author Nick Spark will tell the curiously Murphyesque history of Murphy's Law
  • Mark Fonstad, lead author of the controversial research report "Kansas Is Flatter Than a Pancake"

    Admission is FREE!

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