The image you see here, when combined with a few moments’ thought, provides the answer to the puzzling question: How can one write in a completely foreign language? The solution to that puzzle is: On a piece of paper, handwrite any phrase you like, in a language you do know. Then rotate the paper 180 […]
The Ig Nobel Prizes have again turned up in a crossword puzzle, this time as an answer in the April 22, 2025 puzzle in The New Yorker. The clue for one of the across words is: 53 Its inventors won an Ig Nobel prize “for diverting millions of person-hours of work into the husbandry of virtual […]
The Ig Nobel Prizes have again turned up in a crossword puzzle, this time as an answer in the August 2, 2022 puzzle in the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post. The clue for one of the down words is: 23 ___ Satiric Science Prize for “research that makes people laugh then think” By our […]
The Ig Nobel Prizes have again turned up in a crossword puzzle, this time as an answer in the May 3, 2022 puzzle in The New York Times. The clue for one of the across words is: 14 ___ Prize (satirical scientific award since 1991) By our lazy count, this is the sixth time the Ig […]