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Subject: TOURBUS - 08 Oct 02 - The Ig Nobel and Stella Awards
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TODAY'S TOURBUS TOPIC: The Ig Nobel and Stella Awards
What's an Ig? Can you get filthy rich by spilling coffee on your lap?
And did Bob really make his sister kiss a light bulb? Find answers to
all these questions in today's TOURBUS. Read on!
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THE IG NOBEL AWARDS
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Surely you've heard of the Nobel Prize, which is awarded for great
achievements in Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Literature and Peace.
But have you heard about the IG NOBEL Prize? The Igs, which honor
individuals whose achievements "cannot or should not be reproduced"
are intended to celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative, and take
a good-natured poke at some remarkably goofy things done in the name
of science. This year's Ig Nobel Prizes, sponsored by the science
humor magazine "Annals of Improbable Research", were just awarded at a
gala ceremony at Harvard University and included:
PHYSICS: Arnd Leike of the University of Munich, for demonstrating
that beer froth obeys the mathematical Law of Exponential Decay.
INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH: Karl Kruszelnicki of The University of
Sydney, for performing a comprehensive survey of human belly button
lint -- who gets it, when, what color, and how much.
CHEMISTRY: Theo Gray of Wolfram Research, for gathering many elements
of the periodic table, and assembling them into the form of a
four-legged periodic table table.
MATHEMATICS: Researchers at Kerala Agricultural University, India, for
their analytical report "Estimation of the Total Surface Area in
Indian Elephants."
HYGEINE: Eduardo Segura, of Tarragona, Spain, for inventing a washing
machine for cats and dogs. This report is in Spanish, so I can't tell
if *dries* them after wash cycle. If so, I want one for my dog,
"Stinky"!
You can read all about the IG NOBEL prizes, listen to highlights of
the ceremony, and peruse the archives of past winners here:
<A href="http://www.improbable.com/ig/ig-top.html";>
http://www.improbable.com/ig/ig-top.html </A>
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THE STELLA AWARDS
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If you've been online for more than, say, a week, you've probably had
your share of e-mails filled with urban legends -- promises that Bill
Gates will send you money if you forward a stupid e-mail, some guy in
Africa has $200 million in cash for you (if you'll just send $15,000
in shipping costs), and a listing of the most outrageous lawsuits
you've ever seen -- the "Stella Awards".
The problem with all of them is that they ARE urban legends -- none of
them are true. The weird lawsuits in particular have caught people's
attention: they're really going around a lot. Randy Cassingham, the
guy that writes the weekly weird news journal "This is True", got
really tired of the fake "Stella Awards" mails. "What's the point of
arguing about a real problem with fake cases?" he asks. So he decided
to DO something about it: he launched the True Stella Awards, and
proves once again that "Truth is Stranger than Fiction". And thanks to
Randy's wit, they're a lot more amusing, too. The site lists those
popular-but-fake lawsuits (see the "bogus awards" page) and you can
get a free e-mail subscription to the True Stella e-mails too.
Highly recommended!
<A href="http://www.StellaAwards.com";>
http://www.StellaAwards.com </A>
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I'M HAVING A PARTY
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I wonder if all you nice folks would do me a little favor. You see,
when I was a teenager, I wasn't always as nice to my sister as I
should have been. Sibling rivalry and all that, one could argue, but
finally I have a chance to assuage my guilt. My sister Sue has
recently become a TupperWare(tm) salesperson. And even after buying
as much TupperWare as I could possibly fit in my kitchen, I felt that
I should do something more to atone for the sins of my youth.
So I helped Sue create her own online TupperWare store, and told her
that I would ask 100,000 friends to come and buy lots of stuff. So
come to my TupperWare party! Buy lots of great food storage products
for yourself or to send as a gift. See the cute photo of my sister
holding my adorable niece. I feel better now. :-)
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That's all for now, I'll see you next time! --Bob Rankin
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