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...from nutrition to archaeology. In past years, researchers have been awarded Ig Nobels for the iconic pink yard flamingo and for calculating the exact odds Mikhail Gorbachev is the anti-Christ. This year, the event continued its tradition of zany humor. The ceremony opened with an introduction by past winner Dan Meyer, who promptly swallowed a sword onstage. Meyer won his Ig Nobel for studying sword swallowing and its effects. Later, a parade of “Ignitaries” entered the theater, and a number of student delegations were recognized by standing and spinning three times. Throughout the event...
...story, "IOP Panel Debates Economic Turmoil," reported that The New York Times reporter on the panel, Diana B. Henriques, is a Pulitzer Prize winner. In fact, she has never won the prize, but has been a finalist...
...WINNER OF THE WEEK: DEMOCRATS...
...week's winner is based on the relative importance of each fight and by how much the winner takes each round...
...next week, according to a Thomson Reuters’ annual prediction released Wednesday. The list of 22 likely laureates includes professor of chemistry Charles M. Lieber, professor of genetics Gary Ruvkun of Harvard Medical School, and professor of economics Martin S. Feldstein. Thomson Reuters has generated lists of probable winners since 1989, using a methodology that predominately relies upon the researcher’s number of “high impact papers” and total citation counts, according to their Web site. In addition to this quantitative data, Thomson Reuters assesses whether the discoveries are worthy of special recognition...