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The Bar => The Lounge => Topic started by: BlueStateSaint on September 21, 2012, 08:32:18 AM
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They were released last evening. I had the home inspection to go to, so I missed it. :(
A report about reports about reports? Yep, at this year’s Ig Nobel awards
Published September 20, 2012
FoxNews.com
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A U.S. government agency has earned a literature prize for issuing a report about reports about reports -- and concluding that a new report ought to be prepared to sum it all up.
The government’s General Accountability Office was held generally accountable for the May 10 report at the 2012 Ig Nobel awards, an annual celebration of achievements in the arts and sciences that make people laugh -- and ultimately, hopefully, makes them think as well.
The GAO report, which carried the stultifying title “Actions Needed to Evaluate the Impact of Efforts to Estimate Costs of Reports and Studies," won the Literature Prize in this year’s ceremony, which was held Thursday evening at Harvard University's historic Sanders Theatre.
Master of ceremonies Marc Abrahams, the editor of “the Annals of Improbable Research,†said the 22nd Ig Nobel prizes were filled with hair, coffee, fish, opera singers, and paper airplanes. He was referring to the various awards, of course, which spanned studies into dead fish, why hair turns green and more.
But while humorous, the awards are also serious stuff: Abrahams enlisted five genuine Nobel laureates to hand out the prizes.
And as you can see in the photo above, the Nobel laureates were very serious. :tongue:
The rest is here: http://www.foxnews.com/science/2012/09/20/report-about-reports-about-reports-yep-at-this-years-ig-nobel-awards/?intcmp=features#ixzz276wJFjUm
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MEDICINE PRIZE
Emmanuel Ben-Soussan and Michel Antonietti from France earned the medicine prize for advising doctors who perform colonoscopies how to minimize the chance that their patients will explode.
Sounds like a meaningful good idea to me. :pokingpoop:
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Sounds like a meaningful good idea to me. :pokingpoop:
Keeps shit from flying . . . :rimshot: