The man [pictured here] who was awarded an Ig Nobel Prize for using magnets to levitate a frog (a feat he accomplished together with a man who already had a knighthood) and then ten years later was awarded a Nobel Prize for having used scotch tape to tease graphene layers from a pencil, has now been […]
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Risk-taking Ig Nobel winner sponsors a prize for risk
Lloyds of London, is sponsoring a prize for “the science of risk”. The Lloyds web site says: The Science of Risk Prize Information Booklet 2011 can be found here. The 1992 Ig Nobel Prize in economics was awarded to “the investors of Lloyds of London, heirs to 300 years of dull prudent management, for their bold attempt to insure […]
Invention priority? Hurtubise, Brown, and their arms
“I learned the hard way that there’s no bear spray that will stop a bear.” So says Troy Hurtubise in this old video (below) where he demonstrates some of his advanced technology. Today comes word that a man named David Brown was awarded a 2011 Invention Award for his crime-fighting armored glove. At a glance, […]
Little girls at prize ceremonies: Contrasts
Euronews reports that a brand-newly created prize, the Confucius Prize, was hastily awarded this week at a ceremony in Beijing, possibly by the Chinese government, possibly not. Euronews says that the winner says he was unaware he was winning something, and thus did not appear at the ceremony. And so, says the report, the prize […]