Here’s another look back at Project AIRhead 2000 (announced in June 1994). The project celebrated every item, project or concept that had the number 2000 tacked onto its name in giddy anticipation of the coming millennium:
“Seniors 2000/Advanced Digital Imaging,” a digital retouching system for high school yearbook pictures. “Trim or add hair, close gaps in teeth, erase nose rings, etc.”
In a mere 30 minutes, Jasmuheen, winner of the 2000 Ig Nobel Prize for literature, explains as best she can how and why she does not eat. Jasmuheen was awarded the prize for her book “Living on Light,” which explains that although some people do eat food, they don’t ever really need to.
For the specialist: If you have the proper background, perhaps enhanced by a long-term scrupulous avoidance of food, you find more detail in a multi-part video lecture series by Jasmuheen.
Here’s another look back at Project AIRhead 2000 (announced in June 1994). The project celebrated every item, project or concept that had the number 2000 tacked onto its name in giddy anticipation of the coming millennium:
Rover 2000 automobile.
The glitch has been vanquished. The final segment of the 2009 Ig Nobel Prize ceremony video (from the webcast) is now online. It’s got: the awarding of the rest of the prizes; the Win-a-Date contest, and the thrilling conclusion of the mini-opera.
Anecdotally HSE has been told of various public miss-uses from balls being thrown down the lane at operatives undertaking maintenance work in the machine.
So kinda-sorta warns the UK Health & Safety Executive’s report “Guidance on pinsetter / pinspotter machines in ten pin bowling centres“.
(Thanks to investigator Scott Langill for bringing this to our attention.) Photo: Keith Kanakis, creative commons license.
The London Evening Standard interviewed Dr. Elena Bodnar, Ig Nobel Prize-winning inventor of the bra that converts instantly into a pair of protective face masks. Dr. Bodnar demonstrated the device:
UPDATE: Dr. Bodnar is much in demand for interviews. Here are a few other video reports: KCAL-9 TV and 322 TV News, and BBC Russia.
