The New York Times “You’re the Boss” blog reports about a teenager who is starting a hiccup-remedy business, possibly because neither she nor her doctors did much Internet research and thereby (or thereNOTby) failed to learn about the digital hiccup treatment devised by Ig Nobel Prize winner Dr. Francis Fesmire. The report: To silence her […]
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The scented business suit, demonstrated for chemists
Yesterday, at the American Chemical Society’s meeting in Denver, I demonstrated the Ig Nobel Prize-winning (prize in environmental protection, 1999) self-perfuming business suit. Chemical & Engineering News filmed this moment of fashion history: I also showed a bottle of DNA Cologne. It comes in a triple-helix-shaped bottle, and the packaging says “Product does not contain deoxyribonucleic […]
Ig Nobel economics winner’s ups/downs
Some (though not all) Ig Nobel Prize winners achieve undebatable success. The 2010 Ig Nobel Prize in economics was awarded to the executives and directors of Goldman Sachs, AIG, Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch, and Magnetar for creating and promoting new ways to invest money — ways that maximize financial gain and minimize financial […]
Daft Exploration: Tentative Equivocality
The Daft (Professor Richard. L. Daft of Vanderbilt University) celebration continues. Today, a deft Daft look at a tentative exploration into equivocality: “A Tentative Exploration into the Amount and Equivocality of Information Processed in Organizational Work-Units,” Richard L. Daft and Norman Macintosh, Administrative Science Quarterly, vol. 26, June 1981, pp. 207-224.