Two Ig Nobel Prize winners — Dan Ariely (Medicine 2008) and Phil Zimbardo (Psychology 2003) were honored, jointly, for having ideas that will benefit humanity. The official Innovation for Humanity Prize announcement: Ariely y Zimbardo, winners of the Innovation for Humanity Prize. One of the closing events for the La Ciudad de las Ideas 2009 […]
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Ig winners lauded for Ideas-of-the-Year
Two of this year’s crop of Ig Nobel Prize winners are among the “noteworthy notions of 2009” celebrated in the New York Times Magazine‘s “Year in Ideas” feature. Here’s how The Times describes them: Cows With Names Make More Milk “The naming,” says Catherine Douglas, the Newcastle University animal behaviorist behind the research, “reflects the […]