Julia Lunetta, aka the “Improbable Webmaster” will be appearing this weekend at Balticon, a science and sci-fi convention in Baltimore, Maryland. She will be speaking on her decade-plus experience as a minordomo for the Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, and some of the various trials, tribulations, and hilarity that has come about as a result. The […]
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Extensive Norwegian take on the Ig
Astrid Meland, writing in Aftenbladen, presents an extensive Norwegian look at the Ig Nobel Prizes. The headline is “Oppdaget den første homo-nekro-voldtekten“, and there are lots of photos.
More Inappropriate Highlighting
“Harmful Effects of Preexisting Inappropriate Highlighting on Reading Comprehension and Metacognitive Accuracy,” Vicki Silvers Gier, David S. Kreiner and Amelia Natz-Gonzalez, Journal of General Psychology, vol. 136, no. 3, 2009, pp. 287–300. Silvers Gier and Kreiner were awarded the 2002 Ig Nobel Prize in literature for their 1997 report “The Effects of Pre-Existing Inappropriate Highlighting […]
Someone stole Roy’s Nobel Prize
Bizarre news, reported in the Boston Globe: Harvard professor’s Nobel Prize stolen Police have caught a man they suspect of breaking into a Harvard professor’s suburban Boston home, but they are still looking for some missing items — including a Nobel Prize. Police tell the Boston Herald that Stephen Beaulieu of Skowhegan, Maine broke into […]