{"id":26733,"date":"2026-09-04T20:30:47","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T18:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=26733"},"modified":"2026-09-04T20:30:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T18:30:47","slug":"a-sense-of-humour-is-a-survival-skill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2026\/09\/a-sense-of-humour-is-a-survival-skill\/","title":{"rendered":"A sense of humour is a survival skill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am waiting for it every year, this time in Zurich, excerpt from an email by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-026-02650-x\">nature news<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Last night, the Ig Nobel prize ceremony lived up to its promise to \u201cfirst make people laugh, and then make them think\u201d. I\u2019ve watched past events online, but it was another thing entirely to experience traditions such as \u2018the paper aeroplane deluge\u2019 in person. I wasn\u2019t sure about my choice of a front-row seat when I realized that many of those planes were heading for the back of my head, but it paid off when I caught one of the pairs of autographed cotton underpants thrown into the audience by the winners of this year\u2019s Ig Nobel in soil science, who buried hundreds of similar pants to investigate soil health.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 04.09.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am waiting for it every year, this time in Zurich, excerpt from an email by nature news Last night, the Ig Nobel prize ceremony lived up to its promise to \u201cfirst make people laugh, and then make them think\u201d. I\u2019ve watched past events online, but it was another thing entirely to experience traditions such &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2026\/09\/a-sense-of-humour-is-a-survival-skill\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A sense of humour is a survival skill<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-note-worthy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26733"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26735,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26733\/revisions\/26735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}