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...12th annual Ig Nobel Prize awards ceremony honored those whose dubious achievements “could not or should not be reproduced” in a chaotic blend of great minds, modest irreverence and outrageousness...
Each year, the Ig Nobel Board of Governors––composed of actual Nobel scientific laureates, science professionals, public figures and athletes––chooses the recipients of 10 Ig Nobel Awards, each in a different field. The board randomly selects someone from the street to help with the final decision...
British researcher D. Charles Deeming, who co-authored a paper on ostriches’ amorous advances toward humans “under farming conditions,” accepted the Ig Nobel in Biology on behalf of his colleagues...
...Dialogue To many, Germany is an oasis of labor peace. Between 1990 and 1998, the country lost just 13 working days per 1,000 workers annually because of strikes. In the U.K. the figure was 32, while France lost 87 days and Spain 344. Unions like the powerful IG Metall, which represents workers in manufacturing industries from cars to electronics, agreed to modest wage packages in hopes of creating more jobs. But IG Metall signaled last week that peace has its limits. Germany's largest industrial union took a strike vote in two regions of the country, and companies began...
...their efforts, Kopczuk and Slemrod received the 2001 “Ig Nobel” prize for economics, a parody prize given out by a science humor journal. Yet we may soon find out if the researchers deserve the real Nobel instead. The Bush administration’s repeal of the estate tax will take place in 2010, but the tax will then come back into force on Jan. 1, 2011. This bizarre sequence of events provides the perfect test case for the death-and-taxes theory. Will prospective heirs request extraordinary measures as 2009 draws to a close...