Two more of the many co-winners of the 2009 Ig Nobel economics prize have achieved special recognition from the Icelandic government: they have been pronounced guilty in legal proceedings. BACKGROUND: The 2009 Ig Nobel Prize for economics was awarded to the directors, executives, and auditors of four Icelandic banks — Kaupthing Bank, Landsbanki, Glitnir Bank, and Central Bank of […]
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How Iceland is a very Ig Nobel nation, and why that’s good
Iceland, though a small, physically isolated country, can boast of great Ig Nobelity. Ig Nobel Prizes, of course, are awarded for achievements that make people laugh, then think. Iceland displayed panache in its Ig Nobellian displays of economics, and then government. BANKS. The 2009 Ig Nobel Prize for economics was awarded to the directors, executives, and […]
Twenty-six co-winners of the 2009 Ig Nobel economics prize have been sentenced to prison
Twenty-six co-winners of the 2009 Ig Nobel economics prize have been sentenced to prison, with perhaps more on the way, according to an October 14, 2015 report in Iceland Magazine: In two separate rulings last week, the Supreme Court of Iceland and the Reykjavík District Court sentenced three top managers of Landsbankinn and two top managers […]
Genetics: App for Icelanders who are apt to sleep with relatives
The News of Iceland web site reports: New App Prevents Icelanders from Sleeping With their Relatives The Icelandic population is very small and all Icelanders are related. But yet, it is big enough so everyone doesn’t know one another. This means that each and every Icelander that is in a relationship, is dating a relative. […]