This is Improbable by Marc Abrahams - Book Launch Party

Conway Hall & Little Atoms present...

The World's Most Improbable Event

with the Father of the IgNobel Prizes, Marc Abrahams

To celebrate the UK release if Marc Abrahams' new book THIS IS IMPROBABLE, Marc has decided it would be a good idea to fly over from the USA and come to a party we're hosting.

Expect a plethora of scientists, researchers, journalists and communicators explaining research on: why books on ethics are more likely to get stolen, what time of month generates higher tips for Las Vegas lap dancers, stories of how mice were outfitted with parachutes to find a better way to murder tree snakes in Guam, and other WTF research.

Confirmed speakers include:
Nick Doody: Stand up Comedian and The Atheist's Guide to Chrismas contributor, Michael Brooks: Science Writer and Author of Free Radicals, Helen Arney: Science Songtress, Timandra Harkness: Mathematician and science communicator, Gemma Arrowsmith: actor and writer; Dr Helen Scales: Marine Biologist; Mo Costandi: Writer of Neurophilosophy for the Guardian, Alom Shaha: Physics teacher and author of The Young Atheist's Handbook, Simon Ings: Novelist and science author, Neil Denny: radio show producer and Winston Churchill Memorial Travelling Fellow, Alice Bell: Science lecturer and communicator extraordinaire, Steve Colgan: QI contributor and Ex-Met Police 'Ninja', and many more to be confirmed.

Marc Abrahams is the editor of the parody magazine Annals of Improbable Research and the founder of the Ig Nobel Prizes, which honour bizarre, questionable, and downright funny scientific research and are presented at an annual ceremony at Harvard University. He has written for the Guardian, the New York Times, New Scientist, Scientific American, and newspapers and TV programmes internationally.