‘The data on extreme human ageing is rotten from the inside out’ – Ig Nobel winner Saul Justin Newman

By Saul Justin Newman, Research Fellow, Centre For Longitudinal Studies, UCL

From the swimming habits of dead trout to the revelation that some mammals can breathe through their backsides, a group of leading leftfield scientists have been taking their bows at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for the 34th annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony. Not to be confused with the actual Nobel prizes, the Ig Nobels recognise scientific discoveries that “make people laugh, then think”.

We caught up with one of this year’s winners, Saul Justin Newman, a senior research fellow…

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~	Data Narratives Civic Media Observatory: Country Reports

~	Major step forward for child protection in Colombia, as politicians ban underage marriage

~	Namesakes in Gaza: Carrying the martyrs with us in diaspora

~	What Russian soldiers wrote to their loved ones before their death

~	Brazil: Meeting discusses protection challenges amid armed violence in north-east

~	Jimmy Carter: president, pastor and prophet

~	Jimmy Carter’s death invites us to consider his legacy of nuclear emergency response and disaster management

~	In 2025, let’s make it game on – not game over – for our precious natural world

~	What was damnatio memoriae? How to get cancelled in Ancient Rome

~	Women love playing sport – and writing about it. Here are 6 fascinating and surprising sports books by women