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...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...
...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...
...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...