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Ig Nobel Awards 2016

10/04/2016 8:56 AM

http://www.improbable.com/ig/winners/

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Re: Ig Nobel Awards 2016

10/04/2016 9:37 AM

The Nobel Peace Prize is interesting.... I kinda like it as well as fitting for the Nobel Committee for the Peace Prize selection committee on its distribution in the past of its once coveted prize.

PEACE PRIZE [CANADA, USA] — Gordon Pennycook, James Allan Cheyne, Nathaniel Barr, Derek Koehler, and Jonathan Fugelsang for their scholarly study called "On the Reception and Detection of Pseudo-Profound Bullshit".

The Nobel Committee must being trying to reinstate its once high integrity on this award.

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Re: Ig Nobel Awards 2016

10/04/2016 11:13 AM

Don't watch this....

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10/04/2016 2:05 PM

CR4 Admin - Removed this comment and deleted all that follow. Political, off-topic discussion is not allowed outside the break room forum.
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10/05/2016 5:52 PM

Lyn when you're censored, you sound a lot more intelligent.

here's something for your entertainment, hope it's not too far over your head. Lol

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Re: Ig Nobel Awards 2016

10/05/2016 5:13 PM

I am thusly, and duly, reminded that the sentiment of P. T. Barnum lives on, whether it needs to or not, in the mentality of those who grant funding for such studies...

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10/05/2016 6:07 PM

Please stop chaps - or take it to the break room. I don't want my (admittedly trivial little) thread pulled.

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10/05/2016 6:14 PM

you got it, back to topic,

I'll try to kick start it and see where it takes us.

Even though some of the Nobel recipients are quite obvious on why they where selective, the nobel committee withholds the reasons on how some of the Nobel recipients are selected and awarded for quite some time (actually a lifetime).

In my opinion, to probably to avoid the battle on the actual reason why. I'm curious how one would be able to access this as it becomes available.

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10/05/2016 6:44 PM

Apologies.

I like these awards.

Being from the farm, this is one of my favorites from the past. "Probability: Bert Tolkamp and Marie Haskell for making two related discoveries: First, that the longer a cow has been lying down, the more likely that cow will soon stand up; and second, that once a cow stands up, you cannot easily predict how soon that cow will lie down again."

Much like the awards Sen. William Proxmire awarded for government waste when he was in office.

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10/05/2016 6:45 PM

The best Golden Fleece award was when proxmire awarded one to himself.

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10/05/2016 7:15 PM

One of a dying breed, an honest politician?
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10/05/2016 6:41 PM

Lol, I viewed Solars video even though the directions said I wasn't suppose to, so I had to look more though your link.. It is Funny...

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