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It's time for that holiday tradition: SciFri's broadcast of highlights from the annual Ig Nobel Awards. True, we normally broadcast these the day after Thanksgiving, but someone named Chad made that impossible this year. So...here they are. The awards were handed out on October 5th in Harvard University's Sanders Theater. As usual, a bewildering collection of prizes were awarded for scientific resarch that cannot -- or should not -- be reproduced. The awards are sponsored by the Annals of Improbable Research. Listen to the highlights from this year's prize ceremony and you'll hear...
.... the chemistry prize, awarded to Donatella Marazziti, Alessandra Rossi, and Giovanni B. Cassano of the University of Pisa, and Hagop S. Akiskal of the University of California (San Diego), for their discovery that, biochemically, romantic love may be indistinguishable from having severe obsessive-compulsive disorder. More info:
...a three-act opera, about a man and woman who want to be the most intelligent couple on earth. But they disagree on how to go about it. He insists they should eat nothing but fish. She insists on brains -- and nothing but. (Want to sing along at home? Here's the libretto! Act I Act II Act III ) ...and much much more!
Guests: Various Genuinely Bemused Nobel Laureates A bunch of rather silly people Related Links: This segment produced by: | |||||||
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