Post by mirium on Nov 28, 2009 10:23:08 GMT -5
Or in this case, Hokey Pokeys on. It's the 19th First Annual Ig Noble Awards! This is where perpetrators of Improbable Science are recognized, whether they like it or not. To keep the pace brisk, recipients (one hesitates to call them "winners") are allowed 60 seconds for their acceptance speech. If they go over time, a young girl starts whining "“Please stop. I’m bored. Please stop. I’m bored. Please stop. I’m bored. Please stop. I’m bored.” until they stop.
You can read more and get the full ceremony at improbable.com/ and/or listen to a one-hour audio highlights compilation from NPR Science Friday at www.sciencefriday.com/about/listen/ (it's one of the links in the Recent Episodes box). I'm particularly fond of this one:
PEACE PRIZE: Stephan Bolliger, Steffen Ross, Lars Oesterhelweg, Michael Thali and Beat Kneubuehl of the University of Bern, Switzerland, for determining — by experiment — whether it is better to be smashed over the head with a full bottle of beer or with an empty bottle.
REFERENCE: "Are Full or Empty Beer Bottles Sturdier and Does Their Fracture-Threshold Suffice to Break the Human Skull?" Stephan A. Bolliger, Steffen Ross, Lars Oesterhelweg, Michael J. Thali and Beat P. Kneubuehl, Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine, vol. 16, no. 3, April 2009, pp. 138-42. DOI:10.1016/j.jflm.2008.07.013.
In a previous year, someone won for inventing an alarm clock that runs away and hides, so you HAVE to get up. www.clocky.net/
You can read more and get the full ceremony at improbable.com/ and/or listen to a one-hour audio highlights compilation from NPR Science Friday at www.sciencefriday.com/about/listen/ (it's one of the links in the Recent Episodes box). I'm particularly fond of this one:
PEACE PRIZE: Stephan Bolliger, Steffen Ross, Lars Oesterhelweg, Michael Thali and Beat Kneubuehl of the University of Bern, Switzerland, for determining — by experiment — whether it is better to be smashed over the head with a full bottle of beer or with an empty bottle.
REFERENCE: "Are Full or Empty Beer Bottles Sturdier and Does Their Fracture-Threshold Suffice to Break the Human Skull?" Stephan A. Bolliger, Steffen Ross, Lars Oesterhelweg, Michael J. Thali and Beat P. Kneubuehl, Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine, vol. 16, no. 3, April 2009, pp. 138-42. DOI:10.1016/j.jflm.2008.07.013.
In a previous year, someone won for inventing an alarm clock that runs away and hides, so you HAVE to get up. www.clocky.net/