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...students, scientists and enthusiasts filed into Sanders Theatre last night for the Ig Nobel award ceremony—“honoring achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think”—a flurry of paper airplanes soared across the room. One landed between the fingers of a pianist entertaining the growing crowd with the churning of a Romantic sonata. A couple of white-haired men with ponytails in the first few rows cupped their hands around their mouths and goaded on the pianist. Then they picked up an airplane and discussed...
...Nobel award in Chemistry went to the Coca-Cola Company of Great Britain, “for using advanced technology to convert liquid from the River Thames into Dasani, a transparent form of water, which for precautionary reasons has been made unavailable to customers.” No one from the company was present to acknowledge the award, but Hershbach used his chemical expertise to explain the magnitude of the achievement. Dasani, he said, had twice the legal limit of toxic bromates...
...Nobel award for psychology went to Daniel Simons, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Harvard’s own Christopher Chabris. Their study, “Gorillas in Our Midst”—performed at Harvard—showed that people who selectively focused on one thing often overlooked normally conspicuous surroundings, including men in gorilla suits...
...until the ceremony itself, received the Ig Nobel Peace Prize because his invention offered “an entirely new way for people to learn to tolerate each other.” As he spent the afternoon in Sanders Theatre, being interviewed intermittently by Japanese television, he said the award came with more confusion than distinction...
...wonderful recognition of an extraordinary individual,” said Eric Lander, founding director of the Broad Institute, in a press release. “Vamsi has creatively applied his diverse backgrounds in medicine, cell biology and computational science to key challenges in the study of human disease. The award is richly deserved...