The USB Wine Key, fictional though it may be, seems to be based on the Ig Nobel Prize-winning work of Jacques Benveniste. Benveniste is the only person who has been awarded two Ig Nobel Prizes, his second, in 1998, was “for his homeopathic discovery that not only does water have memory, but that the information […]
Year: 2009
Red: Bull
More typical, however, was the farmer who told Professor Stratton: “In referring to the saying, ‘Like waving a red rag before a bull,’ I have found that to wave anything before a bull is dangerous business.” (That’s an excerpt from the article “Colorful Research Review,” published in AIR 14:4.)
Puzzle of the Wrecked Car
I have solved the puzzle of what is wrong with the wrecked car: It is wrecked. Carolina Uribe, Ph.D. TRBK Bogotá, Colombia (That’s an letter from the article “Air Vents,” published in AIR 11:1)
The The Woman awarded indexing medal
Glenda Brown of Blaxland, Blue Mountains, Australia, who won the 2007 Ig Nobel Literature Prize for her study of the word “the” — and of the many ways it causes problems for anyone who tries to put things into alphabetical order, writes: You may be interested to hear that The Indexing Companion (my book) won […]