The Ig Nobel Awards

[The Ig Nobel awards, a spoof of the Nobel Awards, have been presented in the U.S. The annual awards, for people whose achievements “cannot or should not be reproduced”, were presented at a spoof ceremony at Harvard University. They are handed out by the science/humour magazine, Annals of Improbable Research, to real academics and others whose work might strike people’s funny bones. Among the winners were…] • A University College London team who showed the brains of London taxi drivers were different from average people, because they become enlarged in the zone associated with navigation; • A Japanese researcher was honoured for chemistry for his study of a bronze statue that failed to attract pigeons; • Kees Moeliker, of Natuurmuseum Rotterdam in the Netherlands, won the biology prize for being the first scientist to record homosexual necrophilia in the mallard duck; • The engineering award went to the late John Paul Stapp, the late Edward A Murphy Jr and George Nichols, for jointly giving birth in 1949 to Murphy’s Law - the basic principle that “if there are two or more ways to do something, and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, someone will do it”; • An Australian team won the physics award for their irresistible report “An Analysis of the Forces Required to Drag Sheep over Various Surfaces”, published in Applied Ergonomics. This year’s Ig Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Indian Lal Bihari for leading an active life even though he had been declared legally dead. The organizers said he’d waged “a lively posthumous campaign” against bureaucracy and greedy relatives. He was also the man behind the Association of Dead People. QuotaBills Candlestine romance - Archie Bunker Hire character. Train skill. - Peter Schutz Adversity tests a man's true character. - Unknown Assumptions are the termites of relationships. - Henry Winkler The great hope of society is individual character. - William Ellery Channing Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character. - Albert Einstein Appropriate rules cultivate a disciplined character. - Bill Welker Character is a diamond that scratches every other stone. - Cyrus A. Bartol Character is the real foundation of all worthwhile success. - John Hays Hammond When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite. - Winston Churchill A person's character is but half formed till after wedlock. - Charles Simmons It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character. - Dag Hammarskjold Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others. - Wayne Dyer I don't really get romance. 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You can stay in it all you want, but it won't go anywhere. - Jay Shetty Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do. - William Henry Channing Lawyers were notorious for finding cases in the most unlikely places, especially ones with huge potential damage awards. - Jodi Picoult Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin, but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building. - Oscar Wilde There is a direct relationship between a person's grasp and experience of God's grace and his or her heart for justice. - Unknown The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting. - Dave Barry Faithfulness is essential to the character of a friend: without this there can be no safety in intimacy with and confidence in him. - Samuel Hopkins More people watch television and get their information that way than read books. 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14-Jul-2020