today knows all about the humor of science of the ig nobel prize and they had her old angels of improbable research magazine. joins me now. marc abrahams to founder of the ig nobel prize editor of the angels of improbable research magazine hi great to see you again strange times these are today you tell me they are they quite are love your hat. i've heard you say that the problem with science in general is that it takes itself to seriously and i agree that science shouldn't be all about cancer or atomic research but you're saying strange times but seriously looking at how things turn out this year don't you think that there is another problem which is we haven't taken science seriously enough. yes i agree with you on both counts the problem with science and everything else is people take it too seriously not seriously enough problem is that every day we hear about things that seem completely foolish and crazy and many of them are foolish and crazy but some of those will turn out to be real and important and it's difficult to tell when you 1st hear about something what it means. you know scientists

knows all about the humor of science the founder of the ig nobel prize and the editor of angels of improbable research magazine marc abrahams joins me now. marc abrahams to founder of the ig nobel price editor of the angels of improbable research magazine hi great to see you again strange times these are with me today tell me they are quite our love your hat. i've heard you say that the problem with signs in general is that it takes itself too seriously and i agree that science shouldn't be all about cancer or atomic research but you're saying strange times but seriously looking at how things turned out this year don't you think that there is another problem which is we haven't taken science seriously enough. yes i agree with you on both counts the problem with science and everything else is people take it too seriously not seriously enough problem is that every day we hear about things that seem completely foolish and crazy and many of them are foolish and crazy but some of those will turn out to be real and important and it's difficult to tell when you 1st hear about something what it means. you kno

knows all about the humor of science the founder of the ig nobel prize and the editor of angels of improbable research magazine marc abrahams joins me now. marc abrahams to founder of the ig nobel prize editor of the angels over improbable research magazine hi great to see you again strange times these are today.

and we're back with marc abrahams to founder of the ig nobel prize and the editor of the angels of improbable research magazine talking about humor in science mark your field is mathematics but i mean you spend so many years both laughing and studying science tell me do you in your non representative sample of great scientists see a correlation between humor and intelligence do those scientists who know how to make or take a joke have actually better working brains than those who don't. i don't know about that i think they're a little happier than the others and the reason for this is this i have been told by many scientists is that their job is very frustrating you know scientists comes to work every day they're trying to figure out something nobody else can make sense of and so every day they're most likely to fail that day that day they're not going to succeed maybe tomorrow they will but that day they're not going to well if that's your job almost every day you're going to fail it helps to have a sense of humor about it you don't want to be. well you know you come from a country that's famous for