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A report about reports about reports? Yep, at this year’s Ig Nobel awards
« on: September 21, 2012, 08:32:18 AM »
They were released last evening.  I had the home inspection to go to, so I missed it. :(

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A report about reports about reports? Yep, at this year’s Ig Nobel awards

Published September 20, 2012

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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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Re: A report about reports about reports? Yep, at this year’s Ig Nobel awards
« Reply #1 on: September 21, 2012, 02:08:57 PM »
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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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Re: A report about reports about reports? Yep, at this year’s Ig Nobel awards
« Reply #2 on: September 21, 2012, 04:50:39 PM »
Quote from: Skul on September 21, 2012, 02:08:57 PM
Sounds like a meaningful good idea to me.  :pokingpoop:

Keeps shit from flying . . . :rimshot:
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"All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it - walk!" -Ayn Rand
 
"Those that trust God with their safety must yet use proper means for their safety, otherwise they tempt Him, and do not trust Him.  God will provide, but so must we also." - Matthew Henry, Commentary on 2 Chronicles 32, from Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible

"These anti-gun fools are more dangerous to liberty than street criminals or foreign spies."--Theodore Haas, Dachau Survivor

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