When it comes to Gold and Silver medalists in Olympic Track and Field events between 1896 and 1948, then : “Contrary to conventional wisdom, winners die over one year earlier than losers.” That’s the result of a new research project conducted by Professor Adam Leive of the Batten School of Leadership & Public Policy, University […]
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Announcing the Ig Nobel free-tickets-to-the-2015-ceremony winner
Earlier this year we announced that people who purchased a subscription to the Annals of Improbable Research between Sept 18 and Sept 30 would be entered in a drawing for 2 free tickets to next year’s (2015) Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony. To ensure a fair drawing, we separated the duties of numbering the eligible entries and […]
Geim becomes first Nobel & Ig Nobel winner
Congratulations to Andre Geim, new Nobel Prize winner in physics. He becomes the first to win, as an individual, both a Nobel Prize (this year, together with Konstantin Novoselov, for experiments with the substance graphene) and an Ig Nobel Prize (in the year 2000, shared with Sir Michael Berry, for using magnets to levitate a […]