The Ig Nobel Prize, awarded to “honor people whose achievements cannot or should not be reproduced,” is coming up soon, and USA Today has a nice overview of the awards and their history . Don’t miss the related story, Ig Nobel Lowlights Through the Years.
Thanks for the link. Personally, I think the best Ig’s are the ones given for actual MS/PhD theses. I mean, any goofball can put together a report on a “county-by-county estimate of how many Alabama citizens will go to hell if they don’t repent”, but when an accredited University gives you a degree involving your … eccentric … research, that’s pretty entertaining.
“oChemistry: Donatella Marrazziti, Alessandra Rossi, Giovanni B. Cassano, and Hagop S. Akiskal for discovering that “biochemically, romantic love may be indistinguishable from having severe obsessive-compulsive disorder.”
Frankly, I came to the same conclusions myself when I was ditched. It was just like dependency and withdrawal. Silly or not, heartless or not… this one actually has a little merit to it. Plus, it’s funny!
Maybe you ranted on too much about how M$ was the devil, and how the company was out to get you.