from my heart and from my hand why don't people understand my intentions

[tactisle]

And now it's October, which means (among other things) that the Ig Nobel prizes have been announced.

In an event that the journal Nature has described as "arguably the highlight of the scientific calendar," each year the editors of the Annals of Improbable Research select and honor a group of research achievements that "first make people laugh,

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[auroramama]

I love the Ig Nobels, and I got to go to several ceremonies, because both my grad advisors (who were otherwise very different people) loved them too. Delighted to see them noted on my flist.

[ishldgetoutmore]

"ECONOMICS PRIZE: The directors, executives, and auditors of four Icelandic banks - Kaupthing Bank, Landsbanki, Glitnir Bank, and Central Bank of Iceland - for demonstrating that tiny banks can be rapidly transformed into huge banks, and vice versa - and for demonstrating that similar things can be done to an entire national economy."