Comment on The 2025 Ig Nobel Prize Winners

xthexder@l.sw0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• Vector@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Not sure if you’re familiar or not with the Ig Nobel Prize (the “ig”is important - it’s not the same as the Nobel Prize), but it’s a kind of parody-but-not of the Nobel prize. It typically covers off-beat or weird science, to “honor achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think.”

  It’s about as quirky as the science it covers:

  Miss Sweetie Poo, a little girl who repeatedly cries out, “Please stop: I’m bored”, in a high-pitched voice if speakers go on too long

  Throwing paper planes onto the stage is a long-standing tradition. For many years Professor Roy J. Glauber swept the stage clean of the airplanes as the official “Keeper of the Broom”. Glauber could not attend the 2005 awards because he was traveling to Stockholm to claim a genuine Nobel Prize in Physics.

  Calling each subsequent event the “first” is definitely on brand!

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  • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The reality is science prizes are nothing but popularity contests mixed with politics.

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    • Vector@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Sure, I would guess that the same goes for just about any contest that can’t be objectively measured.

      At least they’re trying to do fun, interesting, and useful. 🙂

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