Even Einstein Had a Sence of Humor

Those wacky geeks at Harvard and
MIT are at it again. In parallel with the august Nobel Prizes in Sweden,
every year they award what they call the "Ig Noble" Prizes in Cambridge.
Last year’s recipients included two sociology
professors who found a link between country music and suicide; a physicist
who figured out how Hula Hoops stay up; a former police officer who co-invented
and patented the comb-over; and a 17-year-old who conducted what is believed
to be the first scientific test of the "five-second rule" —
the popular dictum that says it is okay to eat food that has fallen on
the floor if you pick it up within five seconds.

The 2005 Ig Nobel Prize
Ceremony

WHEN: Thursday, October 6, 2005, 7:30 pm.

(Note: the pre-ceremony concert and the webcast begin at 7:15)

WHERE: Sanders
Theater, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
(Info about how to pahk your cah near Hahvud Yahd)

WHAT: The 15th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony. Ten new Ig Nobel Prizes
were awarded in categories ranging from Physics, Medicine and Chemistry
to Literature and Peace. The new winners traveled to the ceremony, at their
own expense, from several continents. The Prizes were handed to them by
a group of genuine, genuinely bemused Nobel Laureates, all before a standing-room
only audience of 1200 people. Full details and action pictures will appear
in the Nov/Dec 2005 issue of the Annals
of Improbable Research.

WEBCAST: The ceremony will be webcast live, here at
www.improbable.com. Details will be announced here a few days prior to
the ceremony

from Improbable.com