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The 34th First Annual Ig Nobel Ceremony
- philshem 2y agoHere are the prize winners: https://improbable.com/ig/winners/ https://improbable.com/ig/winners/
- sqeaky 2y agoJust reading the references for each of these is gold! Trout muscular control in a vortex?! The correlation between super old people and lack of birth documentation and pension fraud?!
- teruakohatu 2y agoI can’t quite figure out why “ Supercentenarians and the Oldest-Old Are Concentrated into Regions with No Birth Certificates and Short Lifespans” is an ignoble candidate let alone winner. This has been long suspected, makes perfect sense and in my mind isn’t funny, just logical.
- extraduder_ire 2y agoTaking something that seems incredibly obvious and writing a rigorous paper about it is often pretty funny, especially if it's not already researched. A lot of SIGBOVIC papers follow this formula.
- extragood 2y agoWhy is it the 34th "first annual" ceremony? Is it humor or is there something deeper?
- DrJokepu 2y agoI’m fairly certain that this was one of those so-called “jokes” I’ve read about.
- ChrisArchitect 2y ago[dupe] Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41526086 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41526086