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. […]
Sensory attributes of haddock balls in the cold
Haddock balls suffer from the cold, according to this Icelandic study: “SENSORY ATTRIBUTES OF HADDOCK BALLS AFFECTED BY ADDED FISH PROTEIN ISOLATE AND FROZEN STORAGE,” Gholam Reza Shaviklo [pictured here], Sigurjon Arason, Gudjon Thorkelsson, Kolbrun Sveinsdottir and Emilia Martinsdottir, Journal of Sensory Studies, vol. 25 (2010) 316–331. (Thanks to investigators Philip Rubin and Robert Remez […]
Iceland analysizes its Ig winners
The Government of Iceland commissioned and has now received a massive report about the co-winners of the 2009 Ig Nobel Economics Prize. The official word: The Special Investigation Commission (SIC) delivered its report to Althingi on April 12 2010. The Commission was established by Act No. 142/2008 by Althingi, the Icelandic Parliament, in December 2008, […]
The Big Bank Opera (video)
“The Big Bank Opera” premiered as a featured part of the 2009 Ig Nobel Prize ceremony. Here’s the entire mini-opera — Act 1, Act 2, Act 3 and Act 4 — each as a separate episode (#124-7) of the Improbable Research TV series. The video displayed below is Act 3, which is called “The Big […]
Ig winner Thorvaldsson pens memoirs
2009 Ig Nobel economics prize co-winner Armann Thorvaldsson has written a book about his experience. Called Frozen Assets, it is 576 pages long. The publisher says: Iceland truly lived the boom and bust. Once a tiny country on the edge of Europe, in less than two decades it became a global financial powerhouse.This is the […]