[Promotum] Ig Nobel awards

[Edmund A. Hintz]

I've sent these around in the past, but it has been a while...

WHAT: The Ig Nobel Prizes honor people whose achievements "cannot or 
should not be reproduced." Ten prizes are given to people who have done 
remarkably goofy things -- some of them admirable, some perhaps 
otherwise. 

WHY: The Igs are intended to celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative 
-- and spur people's interest in science, medicine, and technology. 

THE CEREMONY: The Prizes are awarded at a gala ceremony in Harvard's 
Sanders Theatre. 1200 splendidly eccentric spectators watch the winners 
step forward to accept their Prizes. The Prizes are physically handed to 
the winners by genuinely bemused genuine Nobel Laureates. You are invited 
to attend the ceremony in person, or via broadcast.

WHENCE: The Igs are inflicted on you by the science humor magazine Annals 
of Improbable Research (AIR),

     So now that we've cleared up what they are, here's the results of 
the 2001 ceremony:

http://www.improbable.com/ig/2001/ig-2001-winners.html




Peace,

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