Word: ig
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...Japanese entrepreneurs were honored at the Seventh First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony last night for inventing Tamagotchi--small, plastic, virtual pet--and diverting millions of hours of work into their husbandry...
They were among recipients honored with ten Ig Nobel Prizes at a ceremony in a packed Sanders Theatre, which are awarded annually to individuals whose inventions or achievements "cannot or should not be reproduced...
...latest HMO was first proposed in an editorial in the May/June 1997 issue of Annals of Improbable Research, The Journal of Record for Inflated Research and Personalities (AIR)--a publication sometimes described as the MAD magazine of science. Abrahams is the editor of AIR which annually hosts the Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, honoring people whose achievements "cannot or should not be reproduced...
Featherstone was just one of the award recipients at last night's wacky "Sixth First Annual Ig Nobel Awards Ceremony," an event honoring those individuals whose achievements "cannot or should not be reproduced," according to Marc Abrahams, the master of ceremonies and editor of the Annals of Improbable Research...
...addition, nine other Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded in such fields as art, chemistry, literature and medicine...