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This year’s winners of Ig Nobel awards—centered on the theme of risk—affected a wide range of people, from farmers to bar-brawlers to bankers to expectant mothers. And it was clear from the continuous laughter of the audience and the dozen or so Nobel Laureates onstage that the year’s selection catered to the dual mission of humor and thought...
...silver speedo, sneakers, and paint, a man darted around the atrium of Sanders Theatre last night—sticking out, to say the least, as students, Nobel laureates, and followers of the Annals of Improbable Research filed in to attend the “19th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony” last night...
...stage, a poker table, a grand piano, a bar outfitted with shaker and glass, and people dressed in vibrant top hats, tails and Gatsbyesque dresses greeted attendees of the Ig Nobels, which honor people for findings that first make people “LAUGH, and then make them THINK...
...Ig Nobel Peace Prize was awarded for research from the University of Bern, Switzerland. Stephan Bolliger and Steffen Ross sought to determine whether a full or empty beer bottle did more damage when smashed over someone’s head (it was the latter). Bolliger accepted the award with a smile and proceeded to smash a prop bottle over his own head...
Eighteen months since the IG report, USAID has also not adequately accounted for $16 million in project spending and has hired an outside auditor to track the money, according to Dona Dinkler, the USAID IG's chief of staff. USAID declined to comment, but it has blamed high staff turnover - four different USAID employees oversaw the project successively - and security concerns, which severely limited the number of hands-on visits to the remote Sindh and Baluchistan provinces, where the project was meant to have its greatest impact. "In that case, you have to find other ways to provide oversight...