Irrelevant Scientific Research Honored 93
More than 1,000 people attended this year's Ig Nobel awards, a light-hearted alternative to the Nobel Prizes. Scientists who unlocked the inner secrets of dog fleas, crisps and tangled string swept the show. Handing out awards was William Lipscomb, the 1976 Nobel laureate for chemistry, also doubling Thursday, at the age of 89, as the hero in the "Win-a-Date-With-a-Nobel-Laureate Contest." The prize itself is a plaque that reads, "This Ig Nobel Prize is awarded in the year 2008 to an Ig Nobel Prize Winner, in recognition of the Ig Nobel Prize Winners' Ig Nobel Prize winning achievement." At last I can submit my paper, "Everything is Really Wet, Even Dry Stuff." for peer review.
Discovery Institute should get its act together! (Score:3, Funny)
Too bad the Creationists can't come up with any actual scientific research, they'd win this honour every year!
The Next Big Controversy (Score:5, Funny)
I don't see how any self-respecting scientist can sleep at night until this situation is rectified. I know I can't!
Re:The Next Big Controversy (Score:3, Funny)
It sounds like you're going to be the research topic for next years awards.
Re:All science is irellevant -except for THEOLOGY (Score:2, Funny)
Re:The Next Big Controversy (Score:2, Funny)
Re:I know it's all in fun... (Score:2, Funny)
"I'm from Baton Rouge. It's snowed there ONCE and stuck in the last 25 years."
So snowballs DID have a chance in Hell!
Knot theory (Score:5, Funny)
I am sure that knot theory would be useful to cosmologists studying string theory.
Re:I know it's all in fun... (Score:3, Funny)
I am currently sitting about twenty miles from one of the leading contenders for the snowiest spot on the globe. That would be Thompson Pass, near Valdez, Alaska. I will send you some snow if you like--we probably have enough.
I am so thrilled by all of this wonderful snow that we get. So thrilled. On an entirely unrelated subject, I'm looking for good books on how to tie a noose correctly. Have you heard of any?
Re:I know it's all in fun... (Score:3, Funny)
That should have been silicone, not silicon.. But I guess silicon wouldn't tangle either.