Thursday, September 17, 2020

IgNobel

This year's winners were announced.. The Improbable Research site doesn't have them up, so check out ars technica. Some of the winners:
PEACE

Citation: "The governments of India and Pakistan, for having their diplomats surreptitiously ring each other's doorbells in the middle of the night, and then run away before anyone had a chance to answer the door."

PHYSICS

Citation: "Ivan Maksymov and Andriy Pototsky, for determining, experimentally, what happens to the shape of a living earthworm when one vibrates the earthworm at high frequency."

PSYCHOLOGY

Citation: "Miranda Giacomin and Nicholas Rule, for devising a method to identify narcissists by examining their eyebrows."

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