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...annual Ig Nobel Prizes, held to honor practitioners of unconventional scientific research, also spotlighted another kind of unusual star this past Thursday in Sanders Theater. Besides featuring a group of scientists who discovered a method to create a diamond out of tequila, the honor of cutest participant in the ceremony undoubtedly goes to eight-year-old Isabel Kadel-Garcia, known for the evening as "Miss Sweetie...
...first annual Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded for discoveries “that cannot, or should not, be reproduced.” 19 years later, the Igs, as they’re lovingly referred to, are still being awarded for improbable (and bizarre) research findings. FM attended last week’s awards in Sanders Theatre. The scene was chaotic, uncomfortable, but nonetheless amusing as answers to questions we never knew we had were answered and old wives’ tales debunked (don’t worry, you can keep cracking your knuckles; if laureate Donald L. Unger didn?...
Last weekend, more than 10,000 visitors thronged Taybeh village for the fifth annual Oktoberfest, a celebration of music, dance, food and beer. Villagers sold more olive oil, honey, embroidery and other items in those two days than in the whole of 2009. But it wasn't easy for Taybeh to learn to thrive - and still isn't. After a promising start, business collapsed during the Palestinian intifada uprising. The Khoury brothers weathered the storm but new restrictions at the Israeli security barrier have now turned what used to be an hour-long delivery to Tel Aviv into an expensive...
Ciotti spiked HSPH’s participation rate in Harvard’s annual performance survey from around 34 percent when she arrived to 94 percent in 2008 and 2009 both by dangling carrots like ice-cream or pizza parties and waving sticks—threatening not to hand out small performance bonuses until a department had achieved 100 percent participation...
Humiliated at own annual Waldorf sleepover...