Name:Rivali Dass
Age:16 :)
Birthday: 5th Oct '92
Class:1D '05, 2e '06 <33,3e '07, 4e '08
School: MGS
I <3: Family, My dogs, 2e, 4e, MORONS, painting, designing, writing weird stories, being generally weird, unsettling people...
The Ig Nobel Prizes are a parody of the NobelPrizes and are given each year in early October — around the time the recipients of the genuine Nobel Prizes are announced — for ten achievements that "first make people laugh, and then make them think." Organized by the scientific humor magazine Annals of Improbable Research (AIR), they are presented by a group that includes genuine Novel Laureates at a ceremony at Harvar University's Sander's Theater. The first Ig Nobels were awarded in 1991, at that time for discoveries "that cannot, or should not, be reproduced." Ten prizes are awarded each year in many categories, including the Nobel Prize categories of physics, chemistry, physiology/medicine, literature, and peace, but also other categories such as public health, engineering, biology, and interdisciplinary research.The Ig Nobel Prizes are for genuine achievements.
The awards are sometimes veiled criticism, as in the prizes in "science education" to Kansas and Colorado state boards of education for their stance regarding the teaching of evolution, etc. Most often, however, they draw attention to scientific articles that have some humorous or unexpected aspect. Examples range from the discovery that the presence of humans tends to sexually arouse ostriches, to the statement that black holes fulfill all the technical requirements to be the location of Hell, etc.
List of Ig Nobel Prize Winners
THIS IS THE FUNNIEST OF ALL!!!: In 1994, the Ig Nobel Psychology prize was presented to Lee Kuan Yew, former Prime Minister of Singapore for his thirty-year study of the effects of punishing three million citizens of Singapore whenever they spat, chewed gum, or fed pigeons.
Other prizes include:
1991: Chemistry - Jacques Benveniste, prolific proselytizer and dedicated correspondent of Nature, for his persistent discovery that water is an intelligent liquid, and for demonstrating to his satisfaction that water is able to remember events long after all traces of those events have vanished. 1991:Peace - Edward Teller, father of the hydrogen bomb and first champion of the Star Wars Weapon system, for his lifelong efforts to change the meaning of peace as we know it.
1992: Biology - Dr. Cecil Jacobson, relentlessly generous sperm donor, and prolific patriarch of sperm banking, for devising a simple, single-handed method of quality control.
1993: Literature - Presented to E. Topol, R. Califf, F. Van de Werf, P. W. Armstrong, and their 972 co-authors, for publishing a medical research paper which has one hundred times as many authors as pages. The authors are from the following countries: Australia, Belgium, Canada, France Germany, Ireland, Israel, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, the UK and the USA. 1993:Mathematics - Presented to Robert W. Faidof Greenville, South Carolina, farsighted and faithful seer of statistics, for calculating the exact odds (860,609,175,188, 282,100 to 1) that Mikhail Gorbachevis the Antichrist. 1993:Peace - The Pepsi-Cola Company of the Philippines, for sponsoring a contest to create a millionaire, and then announcing the wrong winning number, thereby inciting and uniting 800,000 riotously expectant winners, and bringing many warring factions together for the first time in their nation's history.
1994:Literature - Presented to L. Ron Hubbard, ardent author of science fiction and founding father of Scientology, for his crackling Good Book, Dianetics, which is highly profitable to mankind — or to a portion thereof. 1994:Mathematics - Presented to The Southern Baptist Church of Alabama, mathematical measurers of morality, for their county-by-county estimate of how many Alabama citizens will go to Hell if they don't repent.
1995: Peace - Presented to the Taiwan National Parliament, for demonstrating that politicians gain more by punching and kicking each otherthan by waging war against other nations.
1996:Literature - Presented to the editors of the journal Social Text for eagerly publishing research that they could not understand, that the author said was meaningless, and which claimed that reality does not exist. (see Sokal Affairfor details) 1996:Peace - Presented to Jacques Chirac, President of Francs, for commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of Hiroshima with atomic bomb tests in the Pacific.
1998: Biology - Presented to Peter Fong of Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, for contributing to the happiness of clams by giving them Prozac. 1997: Literature - Presented to Dr. Mara Sidoli of Washington, DC, for her illuminating report, "Farting as a Defence Against Unspeakable Dread." 1997:Peace - Presented to Prime Minister of India, Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee an Prime Minister of Pakistan, Nawaz Shariff, for their aggressively peaceful explosions of atomic bombs.
2000:Economics - Presented to The Reverend Sun Myt=ung Moon for bringing efficiency and steady growth to the mass marriage industry with, according to his reports, a 36-couple wedding in 1960, a 430-couple wedding in 1968, an 1800-couple wedding in 1975, a 6000-couple wedding in 1982, a 30,000-couple wedding in 1992, a 360,000-couple wedding in 1995, and a 36,000,000-couple wedding in 1997.
2001: Peace - Presented to Viliumas Malinauskas of Grutas, Lithuania, for creating the amusement park known as "Stalin World." 2001: Technology - Presented jointly to John Keogh of Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia, for patenting the wheel in the year 2001, and to the Australian Patent Office for granting him Innovation Patent #2001100012.
