They make me giggle every year. Ten awards are made each year for achievements that make people laugh then make them think in categories loosely modelled on the Nobel prizes. They started in 1991 for discoveries that "cannot or should not be reproduced". Link from my favourite and sadly missed newspaper below:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/oct/02/ig-noble-awards-britons-top
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10 months ago
For another perspective with links to some of the original work see also the Best of the Ig Nobel Prizes 2009 in the New Scientist. The link to the patent for the Garment device convertible to one or more facemasks is not to be missed!
ReplyDeleteIs your Guardian Weekly arriving yet?
no - the email sent from guardin subscriptions said they'd start with issue dated 9th October. Not long, assuming it ever arrives!
ReplyDeleteGood to see the Grauniads long tradition of typos being upheld :)
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