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...addition to solving the "classic" 3X3 Rubik's Cube five successive times with a world-class average time of 12.46 seconds, Nakajima also earned 5,000 euros ($7,016) in prize money and now stands at the pinnacle of perhaps the world's most unusual sport...
...self-refilling bowl that induces unknowing subjects to eat extra servings of soup without feeling any fuller, to a study on the side effects of sword swallowing. A slew of past Nobel and Ig Nobel Laureates attended, including many who have become regular fixtures at the Ig Nobel prize ceremony. Kees Moeliker said he has flown over from the Netherlands for the Ig Nobels every year since winning in a prize in 2003 for his recording of the world’s first known case of homosexual necrophilia in a male duck. He is the European Bureau Chief...
...1960s and 1970s” and changing definitions of what it means for a woman to “make history.” FROM JOURNALS TO T-SHIRTSUlrich, whose book “A Midwife’s Tale” was awarded the 1991 Pulitzer Prize in History, said that for a long time she had forgotten the offhand remark about “well-behaved women.” She penned it in her very first academic publication, a 1976 journal article that appeared in “American Quarterly,” while she was still...
...state within a state whose primary purpose is to train Burma's future ruling class. Signs of internal dissent are quickly suppressed. Khin Nyunt, the former head of military intelligence who was once hailed as a potential reformer for suggesting dialogue with long-imprisoned democracy leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, now languishes under house arrest himself. Despite scattered reports of soldiers refusing to shoot against Buddhist monk-led demonstrators last week, most of the wide-eyed recruits obeyed orders. "Burma's military is a breed apart, and its biggest accomplishment is the sense of loyalty...
...Read something. Have some kind of fact which really makes you think.” In a candid talk last night at Memorial Church celebrating his new book, “Avoid Boring People: Lessons from a Life in Science,” Watson—the Nobel Prize winner who, along with Francis Crick, discovered the structure of DNA—addressed his time at Harvard, praised polygamy, poked fun at Bass Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel, and discussed the state of science today. He told the audience that he entered science because...