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Concern over US travel visas prompts Ig Nobels to move its awards to Europe
- tim-tday 7mo agoThey should introduce a “war prize” for “Outstanding contributions to war: arms proliferation, damage to international cooperation, and organizations detracting from peace, and human rights contributions to war” But maybe after they move out of the US.
- ChrisArchitect 7mo agoRelated: Many international game developers plan to skip GDC in US https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47308422 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47308422
- brightbeige 7mo agoHere's the blog post https://improbable.com/2026/03/10/the-ig-nobel-prize-ceremony-is-moving-to-europe-after-35-years-in-the-usa/ https://improbable.com/2026/03/10/the-ig-nobel-prize-ceremon... > Abrahams explains: “The city of Zurich and its institutions rapidly moved mountains (only metaphorically — in Switzerland it is illegal to physically move mountains) and committed to make this possible. Switzerland has nurtured many unexpected good things — Albert Einstein’s physics, the world economy, and the cuckoo clock leap to mind — and is again helping the world appreciate improbable people and ideas.” I would like to point out the cuckoo clocks originate from the Black Forest in southwestern Germany - not Switzerland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuckoo_clock https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuckoo_clock