[FairfieldLife] RE: 2013 Ig Nobel Awards
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: 2013 Ig Nobel Awards
merudanda, if one flaps the top of one's fingers against the palm of the same hand, one indeed hears the sound of one hand clapping. One then looks for other koans with which to enjoy the mystery. PS How is Neo treating you? From: merudanda no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, September 23, 2013 10:09 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] RE: 2013 Ig Nobel Awards The sound of one hand clapping may be one of those proverbial mysteries, but a man arrested and seriously punished ( fined the equivalent of $200-more than twice his monthly pension) in Minsk this week for allegedly doing it certainly deserves a Ig Norant award There was one case where deaf and mute person was accused of shouting anti-governmental slogans.Miracles happen in our courts. Svetlana Kalinkina, editor of the independent Minsk newspaper Narodnaya Volya http://www.nv-online.info/ Hope these are something to Ig Nore and are not really happening On the road again - Insisting that the world keep turning our way --- In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote: Winners of the 2013 Ig Nobel Prizes were announced at a ceremony at Harvard University on Thursday night. — Psychology: An experiment that found people who think they are drunk also think they are attractive, conducted by Laurent Bègue, Oulmann Zerhouni, Baptiste Subra and Medhi Ourabah of France and Brad Bushman, a professor at Ohio State University who also teaches in the Netherlands. — Joint prize in biology and astronomy: An experiment that showed lost dung beetles can use the Milky Way to find their way home. Marie Dacke, Emily Baird, Marcus Byrne, Clarke Scholtz and Eric Warrant, who work in Sweden, Australia, South Africa, the United Kingdom and Germany. — Medicine: A study assessing the effect of listening to opera on heart transplant patients who are mice. Given to Masateru Uchiyama, Xiangyuan Jin, Qi Zhang, Toshihito Hirai, Atsushi Amano, Hisashi Bashuda and Masanori Niimi, of Japan, China and the United Kingdom. — Safety engineering: An electro-mechanical system to trap an airplane hijacker by dropping him or her through a trap door, sealing him or her into a package and then dropping the packaged hijacker (with a parachute) to the ground where police will be waiting. Given to Gustano Pizzo of the U.S., who died in 2006. — Physics: The discovery that some people would be physically capable of running across the surface of a pond — if both they and the pond were on the moon. Given to Alberto Minetti, Yuri Ivanenko, Germana Cappellini, Nadia Dominici, and Francesco Lacquaniti of Italy, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Russia and France. — Chemistry: The discovery that the biochemical process by which onions make people cry is even more complicated than scientists previously realized. Shinsuke Imai, Nobuaki Tsuge, Muneaki Tomotake, Yoshiaki Nagatome, Toshiyuki Nagata and Hidehiko Kumgai of Japan and Germany. — Archaeology: Two researchers who parboiled a dead shrew, then swallowed it without chewing so they could examine their excrement to see which bones would dissolve in the human digestive system and which would not. Given to Brian Crandall of the U.S. and Peter Stahl of Canada and the U.S. — Peace: Belarus and its president, for making it illegal to applaud in public, and to the Belarus State Police, for arresting a one-armed man for applauding. — Probability: Researchers who discovered that the longer a cow has been lying down, the more likely that cow will soon stand up, but that once a cow stands up, you cannot easily predict how soon that cow will lie down again. Awarded to Bert Tolkamp, Marie Haskell, Fritha Langford, David Roberts and Colin Morgan of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Canada. — Public health: For medical techniques described in their report, Surgical Management of an Epidemic of Penile Amputations in Siam. They recommend the techniques, except in cases where an amputated penis had been partially eaten by a duck. Awarded to Kasian Bhanganada, Tu Chayavatana, Chumporn Pongnumkul, Anunt Tonmukayakul, Piyasakol Sakolsatayadorn, Krit Komaratal, and Henry Wilde of Thailand. http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/winners-2013-ig-nobel-awards-weird-science-20244056 The Ig Nobel Prizes honor achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think. The prizes are intended to celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative — and spur people's interest in science, medicine, and technology. http://www.improbable.com/ig/#sthash.WigmMZQ2.dpuf
[FairfieldLife] RE: 2013 Ig Nobel Awards
[FairfieldLife] Re: 2013 Ig Nobel Awards
Merudandasez: Is it solipsistic in here, or is it just me? Now THAT is funny!
Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: 2013 Ig Nobel Awards
I shall catch that heaved hat then dry your eyes with same happy just to see your name Neo'd or not, so glad you came (-: From: merudanda no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, September 23, 2013 10:56 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] RE: 2013 Ig Nobel Awards With one fair hand you heaveth up my hat, Your other tender hand my fair cheek feels: Enlightenment struck lowly down I kneels And all my dumb play had my acts made plain With tears, which, chorus-like, my eyes did rain. Thank You Now being on my road again- no Neo giving me a mysterious hint for replying - just in case- sorry for not answering any replies-and clapping with one hand...posting Is it solipsistic in here, or is it just me? --- In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote: merudanda, if one flaps the top of one's fingers against the palm of the same hand, one indeed hears the sound of one hand clapping. One then looks for other koans with which to enjoy the mystery. PS How is Neo treating you? From: merudanda no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, September 23, 2013 10:09 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] RE: 2013 Ig Nobel Awards The sound of one hand clapping may be one of those proverbial mysteries, but a man arrested and seriously punished ( fined the equivalent of $200-more than twice his monthly pension) in Minsk this week for allegedly doing it certainly deserves a Ig Norant award There was one case where deaf and mute person was accused of shouting anti-governmental slogans.Miracles happen in our courts. Svetlana Kalinkina, editor of the independent Minsk newspaper Narodnaya Volya http://www.nv-online.info/ Hope these are something to Ig Nore and are not really happening On the road again - Insisting that the world keep turning our way --- In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote: Winners of the 2013 Ig Nobel Prizes were announced at a ceremony at Harvard University on Thursday night. — Psychology: An experiment that found people who think they are drunk also think they are attractive, conducted by Laurent Bègue, Oulmann Zerhouni, Baptiste Subra and Medhi Ourabah of France and Brad Bushman, a professor at Ohio State University who also teaches in the Netherlands. — Joint prize in biology and astronomy: An experiment that showed lost dung beetles can use the Milky Way to find their way home. Marie Dacke, Emily Baird, Marcus Byrne, Clarke Scholtz and Eric Warrant, who work in Sweden, Australia, South Africa, the United Kingdom and Germany. — Medicine: A study assessing the effect of listening to opera on heart transplant patients who are mice. Given to Masateru Uchiyama, Xiangyuan Jin, Qi Zhang, Toshihito Hirai, Atsushi Amano, Hisashi Bashuda and Masanori Niimi, of Japan, China and the United Kingdom. — Safety engineering: An electro-mechanical system to trap an airplane hijacker by dropping him or her through a trap door, sealing him or her into a package and then dropping the packaged hijacker (with a parachute) to the ground where police will be waiting. Given to Gustano Pizzo of the U.S., who died in 2006. — Physics: The discovery that some people would be physically capable of running across the surface of a pond — if both they and the pond were on the moon. Given to Alberto Minetti, Yuri Ivanenko, Germana Cappellini, Nadia Dominici, and Francesco Lacquaniti of Italy, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Russia and France. — Chemistry: The discovery that the biochemical process by which onions make people cry is even more complicated than scientists previously realized. Shinsuke Imai, Nobuaki Tsuge, Muneaki Tomotake, Yoshiaki Nagatome, Toshiyuki Nagata and Hidehiko Kumgai of Japan and Germany. — Archaeology: Two researchers who parboiled a dead shrew, then swallowed it without chewing so they could examine their excrement to see which bones would dissolve in the human digestive system and which would not. Given to Brian Crandall of the U.S. and Peter Stahl of Canada and the U.S. — Peace: Belarus and its president, for making it illegal to applaud in public, and to the Belarus State Police, for arresting a one-armed man for applauding. — Probability: Researchers who discovered that the longer a cow has been lying down, the more likely that cow will soon stand up, but that once a cow stands up, you cannot easily predict how soon that cow will lie down again. Awarded to Bert Tolkamp, Marie Haskell, Fritha Langford, David Roberts and Colin Morgan of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Canada. — Public health: For medical techniques described in their report, Surgical Management of an Epidemic of Penile Amputations in Siam. They recommend the techniques, except in cases where an amputated penis had been partially eaten by a duck. Awarded to Kasian Bhanganada, Tu Chayavatana
