Synopses & Reviews
Drawn from the world's wackiest actual scientific research, "The Ig Nobel Prizes demonstrates the extreme measures people will take in the quest for knowledge. Recent Ig Nobel honorees include: - The professor who won the Ig Nobel Prize in Physics for a study proving that toast falls buttered side down more often.- The Southern Baptist Church of Alabama, which won the Ig Nobel Prize in Mathematics for devising a formula to determine how many Alabamans will go to Hell.- The Australian man who successfully patented the wheel, and the Australian Patent Office that granted it. For this act, they were jointly awarded the Ig Nobel Prize in Technology.This hilarious book features these endeavors and many more, along with photographs from the annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremonies at Harvard University. An entertaining exhibition of brains and determination, "The Ig Nobel Prizes is the ideal gift for anyone who first wants to laugh and then wants to think.
Review
So funny you couldnt make it up. (The Washington Post) A brainy bacchanalian. (USA Today) The worlds most (un)coveted award. (Journal of the American Medical Association) Marc Abrahams offers amusing anecdotes to make readers cackle and chortle, and perhaps even scratch their heads and think. (BookPage)
Synopsis
This hilarious book features these endeavors and many more, along with photographs from the annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremonies at Harvard University. An entertaining exhibition of brains and determination, this is the ideal gift for anyone who first wants to laugh and then wants to think.
Synopsis
An entertaining exhibition of brains and determination--along with photographs from the annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremonies at Harvard University--this is the ideal gift for anyone who first wants to laugh and then wants to think.
Synopsis
The Nobel Prize recognizes the worlds most talented and innovative minds. Unfortunately, not all of the hopeful thinkers and academics around the globe can become Nobel laureates, but some are lucky enough to win the Ig Nobel Prize instead.
Drawn from the worlds wackiest actual research, The Ig Nobel Prizes demonstrates the extreme measures that people will take in the quest for knowledge, and pays tribute to those individuals whose achievements cannotor should notbe reproduced. Recent Ig Nobel honorees include:
The professor who proved that toast falls buttered side down more often than not
The Southern Baptist Church of Alabama which devised a formula to determine how many Alabamans will go to hell
The founder of the amusement park known as Stalin World
Featuring these endeavors and many more, The Ig Nobel Prizes is an entertaining exhibition of brains and determination.
About the Author
Marc Abrahams is the editor and cofounder of the science humor magazine Annals of Improbable Research (AIR), its online counterpart, www.improbable.com, and the monthly e-newsletter mini-AIR. The founding father and master of ceremonies of the annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony at Harvard University, Abrahams has a degree in applied mathematics from Harvard. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.