Posted by: Gapato | March 21, 2010

Ig Nobels

Good morning everyone, this is just a quick post about the Ig Nobels Show that I attended last Thursday. For those who don’t know about it, the Ig Nobel (pronounce as “ignoble”, not eye-djee as the spelling may imply) rewards research that is funny at first sight, although serious and sometimes, chance bearing. Among last year’s picks were Catherine Douglas who proved that cows with names give more milk; and the Irish police, for writing about 50 traffic tickets to someone named “Prawo Jazdy

Here are a few bad, blurry photos of the guy who like to swallow all things (really) sharp.

And to finish with this, I’d like to thank Antoine, without whom I wouldn’t have been there, for the total lack of advertisement for the event.

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