Word: ig
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Amid a host of scientists in outfits ranging from Speedos to feather boas, the Annals of Improbable Research (AIR) awarded its annual Ig Nobel Awards to the creator of artificial dog testicles, a doctor who photographed every meal he consumed for 34 years and counting, and 8 others...
Even before the main ceremony began, audience members had already begun throwing paper airplanes onto the stage in the grand tradition of the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, a spoof on the annual Nobel Prizes...
...time Marc Abrahams, the editor and co-founder of the humorous science publication AIR and master of ceremonies of the Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, took the stage, the audience was already brimming with anticipation...
...disappearing. That means you're not born conservative or left wing anymore." That trend holds true nationally, where membership in both mainstream political parties is in decline. Elections are increasingly won by the party that can mobilize swing voters with no formal party ties. Union membership is also dwindling. IG Metall, the metalworkers' union, has lost around 25% of its members in the past decade. In Duisburg, the last big test came in 1987, when steelmaker Krupp (which has since merged with former rival Thyssen) decided to shut down its plant in the Rheinhausen section of the city. For almost...
...HRSFA is a group of friends that gets to know each other really well,” Lerer said. A social studies concentrator, Lerer fell into the group his freshman fall after attending the Ig Nobel ceremony, a spoof event in Sanders Theater that HRSFA helps sponsor. “Within a week I had pretty much made most of the friends I have now.” His roommate is a fellow HRSFen (the term for members of HRSFA, pronounced “hurs-fen”), and Lerer considers it his primary social group...