Dear Group:
The Ig Nobel Prize is this October 2nd and I'm planning to go.
Ig Nobel is a mockery of the Nobel prize where they give awards to hilarious
papers. My favorite is the 2005 award for fluids dynamics on the paper titled:
"Pressures Produced When Penguins Poo Calculations on Avian Defecation".
Other good one is the 2003 Physics award to the authors of the paper titled: "An
Analysis of the Forces Required to Drag Sheep over Various Surfaces
More info here:
http://140.247.118.196/tickets/details.cfm?EVENT_ID=7995
And of course, here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ig_Nobel_Prize_winners
Tickets are a bit expensive ($31 and more for students).
I think I'm going to buy tickets in a week or so. If anyone is interested, let
me know as seats are assigned and we might have to buy them together.
Cesar
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Cesar A. Rodriguez-Rosario, Postdoctoral Fellow
Harvard University
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Box#34
12 Oxford St. Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA
Office M110 (617)495-9676
rodriguez(a)chemistry.harvard.edu