The 2016 Ig Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Gordon Pennycook, James Allan Cheyne, Nathaniel Barr, Derek Koehler, and Jonathan Fugelsang for their scholarly study called “On the Reception and Detection of Pseudo-Profound Bullshit”. The study is: “On the Reception and Detection of Pseudo-Profound Bullshit,” Gordon Pennycook, James Allan Cheyne, Nathaniel Barr, Derek J. Koehler, and Jonathan […]
Year: 2016
The Benefits of a Lending Library for Female Urinals
Libraries can have many benefits. This paper outlines one: “The Benefits of a Lending Library for Female Urinals,” Julie Vickerman, Nursing Times, vol. 99, no. 44, 2002, pp. 56-57. The author is at the Chorley and South Ribble Primary Care Trust, Lancashire, UK. Here’s detail from the paper:
The Human Chin – an enduring puzzle
“Despite the vast amount written on the chin, it is deserving of continued attention, for perhaps understanding the chin will reveal some unexpected insight into what it means to be human.” – explain Dr James D. Pampush (Duke University, US) and Dr David J. Daegling ( University of Florida, US). They add to the literature […]
A Financial Times-ly look at the prizes
Tim Harford wrote a lovely essay in the Financial Times, about the Ig Nobel Prizes. Here’s a chunk of it: The Ig Nobel prizes: in praise of ridiculous research …one of the Ig Nobel’s charms is that this ridiculous research might actually tell us something about the world. David Dunning and Justin Kruger received an […]