awards

The 2021 Ig Nobels have been announced! Go here for full details, including links. Here they are: BIOLOGY PRIZE [SWEDEN]: Susanne Schötz for analyzing variations in purring, chirping, chattering, trilling, tweedling, murmuring, meowing, moaning, squeaking, hissing, yowling, howling, growling...

https://americanhumanist.org/news/american-humanist-association-board-statement-withdrawing-honor-from-richard-dawkins/

I saw this whilst out shopping, and it brought a small tear to my eye. Captain Sir Tom Moore, who raised £32 million for the NHS, has been honoured with a Man of the Year award, for Inspiration, and appears on the cover of the British GQ magazine, at the age of 100.

Announced a few minutes ago. Yeah, yeah, Nobel dynamite hot airz blah you do better... This is still a significant acknowledgement of some awe-inspiring science. Roger Penrose won for showing black holes prove a robust theory of relativity. Andrea Gehz and Reinhard Genzel won for the...

For some reason they seem even sadder to me this year. https://www.improbable.com/ig-about/winners/ Sample: PSYCHOLOGY PRIZE [CANADA, USA] Miranda Giacomin and Nicholas Rule, for devising a method to identify narcissists by examining their eyebrows.

It's that time of year again! It's the time when the awards for the research that makes you laugh, then makes you think. They were awarded at the 29th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, on Thursday, September 12, 2019, at Harvard’s Sanders Theatre. Here are the winners: MEDICINE PRIZE...

Do we have a Darwin Awards thread, or rather, a thread in which we can post stupid ways in which people have got themselves killed? If we have, I could not find it, and my apologies - and could a mod kindly move this post to it If we haven't then here is my first contribution...

The 2018 Ig Nobel Prizes have been announced! http://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2018-09-14/nobody-reads-the-instructions-ig-nobel-prize-study-shows/10242560 Amongst them are findings that nobody reads the instructions, and that stabbing a voodoo doll of your boss makes you feel better...

Every Australia Day this award has been given. There are far too many sportspeople, a country and western singer and, to our eternal shame, con man, thief and jail bird Alan Bond. But last year it went to a Biomedical Scientist and this year to Michelle Simmons...

This deserves to b posted here: Details at: http://www.magicana.com/allan-slaight-awards Remember to vote and vote often. :w2:

will be webcast from Harvard Thursday Evening : http://www.improbable.com/ig/2014/ If you don't know, check out the site. If you do (and you bloody well should) then you know you need to be there!!!:):):):):) A good time will be had by all!!!:D:D:D:D Especially the winners of these Very...

Doesn't seem to be any change since Feb. 5, 2013. Have not heard, other than noticing that, anything about it. No Wiki update, nobody noting it here (as far as I have been able to check in Search), no internet notice I have been able to locate - so, if anyone knows what has happened please feel...

Canadian author Alice Munro has won this years Nobel Prize for literature. Ms. Munro was described has the "Master of the modern short story". I agree her stories are carefully crafted and strongly evoke a sense of place. I am especially fond of a collection called Who do You Think You are?. I...

The John Maddox Prize It is open for anyone in any country and especially for those at the beginning of their career.

Considering "Time" wimped out and nominated "the Protester", I'm wondering who people here thought could have been given the award and why?

As a bookophile, I always take interest in major awards like this, and have read a fair percentage of winning books. I'm absolutely delighted that one of my all-time favourite authors, Julian Barnes, has won this year. Here's a link to previous winners...

The Ig Nobels are being awarded this evening in Harvard. Some of the burning questions in this year's crop are Why don't pregnant women topple over? Do cows notice kindness? Does cracking your knuckles bring on arthritis? And is there more than one use for a bra? All results can be found here...

Nominations in the Documentary department: Documentary Feature "No End in Sight" "Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience" "Sicko" "Taxi to the Dark Side" "War/Dance" Documentary (short subject) "Freeheld" "La Corona (The Crown)" "Salim Baba" "Sari's Mother" No Final Cut? Man...

http://www.darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2007.html?worthanothershotcauseitwasnotnoticed It's that time again...

The awards season has started, and LC:FC has failed to win the National Board of Review award for best documentary of 2007. Body of War took home that particular prize. http://imdb.com/news/wenn/2007-12-05/

The Pigasus Awards, announced annually on or about April Fools Day, are dedicated to folks who have been fools in the previous twelve months. Note that the awards do not necessarily go to people who have been fooled, as we all get duped from time to time. Rather, the awards go to folks who try...

from the September 2005 issue of The mini-Annals of Improbable Research ("mini-AIR") *#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* The Fifteenth 1st Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony The new winners will be journeying, from slightly more than four continents, to attend the Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony on...

http://www2.sjsu.edu/depts/english/2005.htm

The top 10 discredited and disproven ideas, still in common use by psychology: http://cms.psychologytoday.com/articles/pto-20050119-000004.html I mention this here, since many of these have a distinct woo ring to them. Not coincidentally, they attract fervent adherents whose faith survives...

from today's Guardian... http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/badscience/story/0,12980,1374213,00.html fun read.

The 2004 Igâ„¢ Nobel Prize Ceremony WHEN: Thursday, September 30, 2004, 7:30 pm. WHERE: Harvard University's Sanders Theater or live on the Internet Featuring: - OFF-KEYNOTE ADDRESS by 2003 Ig Nobel Biology Prize winner Kees Moeliker.( who documented the first scientifically recorded case...

The 14th First Annual Igâ„¢ Nobel Prize Ceremony Thursday, September 30, 2004 -- 7:30 PM Harvard University's Sanders Theatre Ten new Ig Nobel Prizes will be awarded in categories ranging from Physics, Medicine and Chemistry to Literature and Peace. The new winners are traveling to the...

http://www2.sjsu.edu/depts/english/2004.htm The winning entry: [/b]

Is it really such a suprise that ROTK won so many awards? A film featuring a big war where good triumphs over evil with no-one to suggest that it was an 'unjust war' or to ask awkward questions about WMDs? I'm not a fan of LOTR, book or film, so maybe I'm being a bit cynical but a feel-good...