Servelan

"The annual Ig Nobel Prizes, renowned for celebrating scientific achievements that first make people laugh and then think, are relocating their ceremony from the United States to Europe for the first time"

Concerns over US travel visas sees huge event moved to Europe for first time in 35 years | The Independent

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/us-visas-ig-nobel-prizes-europe-trump-b2935119.html

Concerns over US travel visas sees huge event moved to Europe for first time in 35 years

The 36th annual ceremony, typically held in the US a few weeks before the actual Nobel Prizes, will now take place in Zurich

The Independent
Mar 9 at 11:22pmWeb
Show threadB KahnMar 9

@servelan

Wow. That says it all.

Show threadOzzie D, NP-hard  Mar 10
@bkahn @servelan gute entscheidung, & a gut punch. The Igs are in my back yard, I've been several times (even participated in a staged musical tribute to chemistry Nobel laureate Dudley Herschbach, on the occasion of his retirement).
Show threadCarlos SolísMar 10
Not without precedent - almost half of the IgNobel laureates last year were unable or unwilling to travel to Boston, and who can blame them?
Show threadRipp_ Mar 10
@servelan hahaha
Oh... Wait