Monday, October 11, 2004
The Ig Nobel Prize
Most folks have heard of the Noble Prize given out for various advances in science, journalism, literature and other areas. The Ig Noble Prize is given information to those companies and individuals at the other end of the spectrum--the bad stuff--or at least a little weird. Examples of some of the winners:
MEDICINE: Steven Stack of Wayne State University and James Gundlach of Auburn University for their published report "The Effect of Country Music on Suicide."
PUBLIC HEALTH: Jillian Clarke from Chicago High School of Agricultural Sciences for "...investigating the scientific validity of the five-second rule."
PEACE: "Daisuke Inoue of Hyogo, Japan, for inventing karaoke, thereby providing an entirely new way for people to learn to tolerate each other."
There's a lot more where that came from.
MEDICINE: Steven Stack of Wayne State University and James Gundlach of Auburn University for their published report "The Effect of Country Music on Suicide."
PUBLIC HEALTH: Jillian Clarke from Chicago High School of Agricultural Sciences for "...investigating the scientific validity of the five-second rule."
PEACE: "Daisuke Inoue of Hyogo, Japan, for inventing karaoke, thereby providing an entirely new way for people to learn to tolerate each other."
There's a lot more where that came from.
# posted by Joe @ 11:42 PM 
