The Ig Nobels Are Tonight 41
alphadogg writes "Harvard University's August Sanders Theater will play host tonight to a glittering collection of scientific luminaries, in a ceremony dedicated to recognizing some of the most important research of the year. And it will probably involve stuff like green hair, dead salmon brains, and monkey butts. Yes, it's time again for the annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, where the weirdest and least useful scientific discoveries of the year are paraded before the public in a festival of bizarre nerd pageantry." Slashdot programmer David Hand will be in the crowd, too, triggering a flood of justified envy.
Update: 09/13 14:23 GMT by S : Here are the winners.
my favorite winner: 2008 Economics (Score:5, Interesting)
ECONOMICS PRIZE. Geoffrey Miller, Joshua Tybur and Brent Jordan of the University of New Mexico, USA, for discovering that professional lap dancers earn higher tips when they are ovulating.
http://www.improbable.com/ig/winners/
There is an Ig Nobel Peace prize? (Score:3, Interesting)
You never know (Score:0, Interesting)
Yes, it's time again for the annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, where the weirdest and least useful scientific discoveries of the year are paraded before the public in a festival of bizarre nerd pageantry.
Mathematics is a prime example of where "useless" research ended up making billionaires out of dorks - see the founders of Google.
Then again, useless Marketing research helps morons start useless lame companies - see everyone in Silicone Valley in 2013 - all lamoes - every single one of them.
How to tell if a company is going to fail? Is it based in SF? Yep! Gonna fail!
Track record?! Plah-ease! Most entrepreneurs are one hit wonders - if they are LUCKY! The rest are morons. If they are in Francisco, then they are liars, cheats, and idiots.
remember that kids, ALL startups in San francisco are frauds.