The Ig Nobel Awards were awarded yesterday. The winners are here. I especially like:
ECONOMICS: Executives of four Icelandic banks for showing how tiny
banks can become huge banks, and then become tiny banks again.PHYSICS: Katherine Whitcome, Liza Shapiro and Daniel Lieberman for figuring out why pregnant women don’t tip over.
LITERATURE: The Irish national police for issuing 50 tickets to one Prawo Jazdy, which in Polish means “driver’s license.”
PUBLIC
HEALTH: Elena Bodnar, Raphael Lee and Sandra Marijan for inventing a
brassiere than can be converted into a pair of gas masks.MATHEMATICS: Gideon Gono and the Zimbabwean Reserve Bank for printing bank notes in denominations from 1 cent, to $100 trillion.
