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2006 Ig Nobel Prizes Awarded

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the best-of-the-worst dept.

davidwr writes "The Ig-Nobel Peace Prize went to Howard Stapleton for his groundbreaking research in teenager-repellent technology. D. Lynn Halpern won an award for research into why fingernails on a chalkboard are almost as annoying as teenagers. Ivan Schwab garnered his award for research into avian headacheology. Two french researchers cooked up a medal for spaghetti research. Read more about these and other prizes here and at the Improbable Research official web site. To those Slashdotters who were expecting an award, better luck next year."

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  1. Re:Peace Prize? by myowntrueself · · Score: 5, Interesting

    What's next, Peace Prize for the nuclear bomb? They certainly bring peace...

    There was this guy named Bertrand Russell.

    At the end of World War 2 when the 'allies' had the nuke and the Soviets didn't, he advocated a pre-emptive nuclear strike against the Soviet Union.

    As soon as the Soviets developed their own nukes, he became an anti-nuclear peace activist.

    For him, it was all down to game theory.

    So yeah in a sense nukes may brought peace -- if the Soviets hadn't developed them, Eastern Europe and Russia would quite possibly have been nuked into submission. I think that would have been less 'peaceful' than the cold war.

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