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The Fiona or perhaps La Fiona
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« Reply #1 on: October 01, 2011, 07:03:46 AM » |
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All so worthy, but the image of beetles mating with bottles is the one that will stick with me.
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« Reply #2 on: October 01, 2011, 07:16:26 AM » |
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The YouTube video of the mayor of Vilnius was pretty striking, but I think my favorite is the math prize this year.
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« Reply #3 on: October 01, 2011, 11:17:43 AM » |
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Well, I'm a structured procrastinator myself, so I have a soft spot for Mr Perry - but the sheer intellectual extravagance of the Physiology prize earns my highest kudos this year.
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« Reply #4 on: October 01, 2011, 11:56:16 AM » |
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Well, I'm a structured procrastinator myself, so I have a soft spot for Mr Perry - but the sheer intellectual extravagance of the Physiology prize earns my highest kudos this year. I skimmed the Physiology paper and it doesn't seem that extravagant to me; they position it in the context of human yawning. My very limited understanding is that human yawning is an important question in physiology, with no established reason why yawning exists, but a suspicion that an explanation might reveal something important about <something about brain stem function, evolution, and maybe social interactions? or something; I can't remember the details>. Last week, wikipedia brought me from the list of Nobel winners to the list of IgNobel winners. I was surprised to see how much of the research that had won IgNobels eventually turned out to be practical/useful knowledge in a field. Next time that I teach undergrad research methods, I might use some of these papers (urination/decision making comes to mind) to demonstrate the need to study "common sense" phenomena with methodological rigor. I haven't run into Perry before and I look forward to reading his blog. Thanks for the recommendation, llanfair! |
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« Reply #5 on: October 01, 2011, 01:20:05 PM » |
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It's not so much the extravagance of the methodology itself - it's more the "why would anyone actually do that?" aspect that tickled me. That, and the wording of its title ("No Evidence of Contagious Yawning in the Red-Footed Tortoise"), which reads like a verbal shrug of the shoulders.
But I'm weird.
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« Reply #6 on: October 01, 2011, 11:03:25 PM » |
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Someone I know won an IgNobel. He said that the award ceremony was a blast.
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« Reply #7 on: October 02, 2011, 10:45:41 AM » |
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Someone I know won an IgNobel. He said that the award ceremony was a blast.
I'll just bet. We used to get The Journal of Irreproducible Results (sadly, no longer published) and they always had a writeup on the IgNobel ceremony. |
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« Reply #8 on: October 04, 2011, 03:46:58 PM » |
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Someone I know won an IgNobel. He said that the award ceremony was a blast.
I'll just bet. We used to get The Journal of Irreproducible Results (sadly, no longer published) and they always had a writeup on the IgNobel ceremony. Science Friday broadcasts the award ceremony every year. You can download the podcast for free. |
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« Reply #9 on: October 05, 2011, 10:30:03 AM » |
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Someone I know won an IgNobel. He said that the award ceremony was a blast.
I'll just bet. We used to get The Journal of Irreproducible Results (sadly, no longer published) and they always had a writeup on the IgNobel ceremony. It is not dead but merely transformed. Arguably, it is "a sea-change, into something rich and strange." |
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