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Ig Nobel prize 2014

Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Wonderful studies as usual! http://www.improbable.com/ig/winners/#ig2014 The 2014 Ig Nobel Winners: Banana Peels to Nasal Pork

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2012 Ig Nobel prize!

Sunday, September 23, 2012

From the Ig Nobel prize website: PSYCHOLOGY PRIZE: Anita Eerland and Rolf Zwaan [THE NETHERLANDS] and Tulio Guadalupe [PERU, RUSSIA, and THE NETHERLANDS] for their study “Leaning to the Left Makes the Eiffel Tower Seem Smaller” REFERENCE: “Leaning to the Left Makes the Eiffel Tower Seem Smaller: Posture-Modulated Estimation,” Anita Eerland, Tulio M. Guadalupe and […]

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2011 Ig Nobel prize

Friday, September 30, 2011

The 2011 Ig Nobel prize ceremony just took place last night! Here is a list of the winners, a news coverage article and a youtube video of the ceremony.   Update: On 10/6/2011, our lab had a journal club mainly on the psychology prize, but we also talked about various interesting things related to different […]

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The 2010 Ig Nobel Prize

Friday, October 1, 2010

Have your ever seen a Nobel laureate putting a bra on his face? Well… you can see three. It is the time of the year for Ig Nobel Prize again….. 😉

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