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Dead Trout Swimming And Pigeon Missiles – 2024 Ig Nobel Prizes Are Outrageous As Ever
The 2024 Ig Nobel Prizes have been announced, and once again prove that science can be funny, which only sometimes gets in ...
Blue Zones offered hope as real-life fountains of youth – new research says they can be explained by comically flawed data
Last month, Dr Saul Newman of the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing was awarded the Ig Nobel Prize for his work debunking Blue Zones. Newman’s investigation into serious flaws in the data about ...
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Narcissist eyebrow study, alligator breathing helium among this year's Ig Nobel prize winners
Narcissist eyebrows, insect researchers with a fear of spiders and an alligator inhaling helium were among the topics of scientific studies honoured with awards in this year's Ig Nobel Prizes on ...
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The Most Controversial Nobel Prize in Recent Memory
This year’s economics award reinforces a comforting but false story about democracy.
What can we learn from fraud and folly?
Davies is a wide-ranging thinker, but there is a common thread in his work: he is a connoisseur of fraud and failure. (He has already given readers of this column the unforgettable story of the time ...
Queen Elizabeth Was Nearly a Nobel Peace Prize Nominee, But She ‘Didn’t Want’ the Honor: ‘Thank You, But No Thank You’
Queen Elizabeth, known for her humility, was approached about being nominated for the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize for her work with the Commonwealth, but wasn’t interested in the recognition.
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The Nobel Prizes Tell a Story About Scientific Discovery
While Nobel Prize announcements have always been newsworthy celebrations of discovery, recent years’ events have been ...
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2024 Nobel Prizes
WATCH: 3 economists who study how weak institutions affect prosperity win 2024 Nobel Prize The Nobel memorial prize in economics was awarded Monday to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A.
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The Computation Behind This Year’s Nobel Prizes in Chemistry and Physics
It is always worth paying attention when someone wins a Nobel Prize for their life’s work, but a couple of awards this year ...
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What to Know About the 2024 Nobel Prize Winners
Here are the winners of the six Nobel Prizes awarded this year. By Derrick Bryson Taylor Every October, committees in Sweden and Norway name laureates in a variety of prizes related to science ...
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Why Does Anyone Care About the Nobel Prize?
The Nobel is one of the greatest branding exercises in history. Establishing a prize is easy. The hard part is getting anyone to care. Alfred Nobel, a businessman who made his fortune selling ...
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The World Needs A Nobel Prize In Public Health
The Nobel Prize is one of the most prestigious awards in the world. In his will, Alfred Nobel, a 19th-century Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor and industrialist, directed that his fortune be ...