Word: ig
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...addition to broadcasting special events atHarvard--such as South African President Nelson R.Mandela's recent visit to the University--WHRBprovides comprehensive sports coverage, as well asairtime for Memorial Church's Sunday services,this Thursday's Ig Nobel ceremonies and severalother campus events...
Herschbach is also a frequent participant in the Ig Nobels, and he once auctioned off a cast of his foot during the annual parody of the Nobel Prize awards...
...position of the Nobel prize as a repository of the pretensions of science has left it open to ridicule in the form of the Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, held on Oct. 8 in Harvard's Sanders Theatre...
Glashow also defended the Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, which he participated in, when it came under attack in 1996 for trivializing serious scientific research...
...Other Ig Nobel recipients included Mark Hostetler of the University of Florida who studied insect splats on car windows; the late Bernard Vonnegut of the State University of Albany who was honored for his work on "Chicken Plucking as a Measure of Tornado Wind Speed"; and a team of scientists led by Carl J. Charnetski who showed that listening to elevator music may help prevent the common cold...