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2006 Ig Nobel Prizes Awarded
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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The guys from Niels Bohr Institute in Denmark recently just teleported a macroscopic object of a few hundreds atoms over a half a meter, using light as a carrier.
And they give this years Nobel prize for proving the existence of Big-Bang, who took place 13.5 bilions years ago (and a half a century old theory)... I thought Nobel prize were for experimental accomplishments, not for theories. Because I really expect the day when Prof. Stephen Hawking will get one for his radiation. There is nothing experimental in _understanding_ how galaxies were formed...
Besides, the WMAP mission brought images with a lot higher quality then COBE... Am I confused, or what?