The most important awards of the year
The Ig Nobels for 2011 were awarded yesterday. You can watch the ceremony on youtube - it's way more entertaining the the other one. The full list of winners is here on the Improbable Research site.
Among fascinating research awarded this year are the one for Physics that went to people who studied why discus throwers become dizzy, and why hammer throwers don't and the one for Biology for discovering that a certain kind of beetle mates with a certain kind of Australian beer bottle. This last one must've been fun for whomever drank that beer.
My favourite one is the Peace Price that went to the mayor of Vilnius, Lithuania, for solving the problem of illegally parked luxury cars by running them over with an armored tank. However the best deserved is the one for Mathematics that went to all those who created the new brand for calculating the date of the end of the world. Interestingly none of them came to claim the award. Maybe these calculations told them it's on another date.
The one I'm going to use in my life is the Literature one - "To be a high achiever, always work on something important, using it as a way to avoid doing something that's even more important".
Among fascinating research awarded this year are the one for Physics that went to people who studied why discus throwers become dizzy, and why hammer throwers don't and the one for Biology for discovering that a certain kind of beetle mates with a certain kind of Australian beer bottle. This last one must've been fun for whomever drank that beer.
My favourite one is the Peace Price that went to the mayor of Vilnius, Lithuania, for solving the problem of illegally parked luxury cars by running them over with an armored tank. However the best deserved is the one for Mathematics that went to all those who created the new brand for calculating the date of the end of the world. Interestingly none of them came to claim the award. Maybe these calculations told them it's on another date.
The one I'm going to use in my life is the Literature one - "To be a high achiever, always work on something important, using it as a way to avoid doing something that's even more important".