The Italian researchers who analyzed how the Peter Principle plays out, and who as a side-effect of that were awarded an Ig Nobel Prize, have a new book about their experiences. The book is called Abbiamo vinto l’Ig Nobel con il principio di Peter [“We won the Ig Nobel with the Peter Principle”], by Alessandro Pluchino, Andrea Rapisarda […]
Year: 2017
Eyewitness account of the Ig Nobel show in Graz
Norbert Swoboda reports about the Ig Nobel show at the University of Graz. His report, in Kleine Zeitung, begins: IG NOBEL PRIZE SHOW IN GRAZ From sex, ducks and alcohol Premiere in Austria: At the University of Graz, three Ig Nobel Prize winners took part in the sold out hall on Wednesday evening. This was […]
Facts and Truth in Science and Everywhere Else
ORF radio, in Austria, interviewed me about fact and truth, a couple hours before I gave a 15-minute keynote talk about that on an ORF TV program: Ig-Nobel: Facts and Truth in Science — “Fake News” is a term that is currently under discussion – so also last night at an event in the Radiokulturhaus. […]
Hells Angels Trademark Law Fetishism Investigation
Trademark law, the Hells Angels motorcycle club, and fetishism rendezvous in a single academic study: “Hells Angels™ Motorcycle Corporation in the Fashion Business: Interrogating the Fetishism of the Trademark Law,” Tereza Kuldova, Journal of Design History, epub 2016. The author, at the University of Oslo, explains: “This article investigates the social function and underlying logic […]