*A UK/US team that came up with an equation to predict the shape of a ponytail has earned itself an Ig Nobel.
Patrick Warren, Raymond Goldstein, Robin Ball and Joe Keller picked up their prestigious award at a sellout gala ceremony at Harvard University.*
Also
Literature Prize: The US Government General Accountability Office for issuing a report about reports about reports that recommends the preparation of a report about the report about reports about reports.
Why do they leave us hanging? It turns out it was high levels of copper leaching into the water from the pipes overnight. http://www.thelocal.se/43366/20120921/ Note the photo. That’s really green, not the slight greenish tint I’d imagined.
Note the rollover text for that photo…
I like the way they deal with long acceptance speeches. The Oscars could learn something.
Swedish blonde women with green hair.
If you hover over that picture a little popup says “The green hair in the picture is not the green hair mentioned in the article”. That text should be more prominent.
Has anyone won both a Nobel Prize and an Ig Nobel Prize? That would be a greater feat than that of people like Linus Pauling or Marie Curie, who won two Nobel Prizes.
Whaaaaaaaa…??
To answer my own question, Andre Geim did this.
Ah, didn’t notice that. Now I wonder what it really did look like.