It is a big deal. I am a little taken aback that people on slashdot don't seem to grasp the Ig Noble. It isn't a bad science award. It is, as their site says: The Ig Nobel Prizes honor achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think. The prizes are intended to celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative — and spur people's interest in science, medicine, and technology.
They found all 22 out of 1000 but the article doesn't tell us how many they declined to tell us how many false positives they got. Which, in my book, makes this story useless for science but serve a use as a PR use. "Those crazy zionists have mice that can detect bombs!" Also the story doesn't mention anything about the process or methods. Are the mice running free? Trapped in a box? Is the mouse live or dead? Is it live or dead in a box? Does it use smell or does it turn colors?
Sure some of that is joking but this article really doesn't say much and leaves a lot to speculation.
This is obiously a message from pac-man that he wants us to be reminded of his eternal love. If every Jesus shapped food item has this kind of meating then that is the only conclusion I can draw.
While a double blind test of the plaintiff would be ideal it can't be done without the consent of the plaintiff because you can't force someone to testify against themselves. What we need is a good double blind study but the problem is that no one wants to spend that kind of money funding something that has been informally tested over and over again with consistent results.
3 horse power 50cc honda build with a top speed of about 30 MPH? That sounds like the engin they use on their scooters. I have 4 of them and they run for ever. Without any modifications or hypermileing they will get between 70 and 100 mpg.
How about we nominate the guy from all those stories about the 40th aniversery of the internet that we had to listen to in October? Can't remember his name but he worked at DARPA and got tired of having to change seats every time he wanted to use a different computer and was also tired of not being able have two computers in two different parts of the country talk to eachother instead of having to type things over and over again.
This guy isn't a robber or murderer. We dont know that. Funny thing about drugs is that they do kill a lot of people. Not in the "if you smoke crack one time you will die" time frame but in the each little hit brings you closer to death and in the "6 police killed in a Mexico drug sting" kind of ways.
This way the practitioners of astrology could finally offer up proof that the planets have an influence on our lives. Then they could have gotten not just the Netflix money but the JREF money too.
This is going to sound like I have way too much time on my hands. Which was true till I got into even more twisted uses of my time. I can testify that there is a market for low res mono-chromatic pr0n. My website is dedicated to it. While ASCII art pr0n doesn't pay that much it has opened the door to paying gigs that have netted me thousands of dollars in commissions. Rule 34 for fun and profit.
This is great. We now have a large pool of people who qualify to win the JREF million dollar prise. If just one of them can prove in a double blind test then they can win the money and get out of Iraq. Science be praised.
I don't see it that way. If you are a shopping minded person [conspicuous consumer] and walking through the mall you can hold your phone up and get info loaded on all off the sales in your path.
Any marketing person knows it doesn't have to be better than signs in the window. It just has to offer an edge over the signs in the window next to yours or reinforce the sign in your window.
Is anyone else seeing this as a way for shopers to find out were the sales are happening? Either on the street or even in a store itself. This could be the replacement for the vanishing newspaper that stores need for their ads.
Might also be really handy for finding houses of ill repute when traveling to other countries.:)
One of the problems with the internet is that it gives people a chance to self select themselves into a tiny little corner of interstes that creates an echo chamber. I don't want recomendations from people I know to be prone to confermation bias. I want recomendations from a large body of evidance showing both pro's and con's. Nothing against Facebook, its just their users I have an issue with.
I strongly recomend Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan. It does a really good idea of exploring why and how science works and has changed the world, for good and bad, through time. As an added bonus you get a full set of debunking tools to learn how to spot junk pretending to be science.
I played with it a bit but didn't really know if I could do anything with it. The first thing I really did was find "mc". I typed it in and looked at the screen. It looked like X-Tree. A little tear formed in my eye. All the sudden I knew that everything was going to be OK. From here I could do anything I needed. I grew out of it in about a week but it that flash back to something known was all I needed to take command.
I look like the poster child for heavy metal and testosterone injections. In order to help soften up my image with women I put cute little dino and bug stickers on my netbook. Got them at a crafts store for $2 a book while I was picking up knitting supplies. I look manly, my netbook doesn't need to.
I am often told by women that their first impression of me is that I am tall dark and intimidating. Anything can do to give them an excuse to think otherwise is fine by me.
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It is a big deal. I am a little taken aback that people on slashdot don't seem to grasp the Ig Noble. It isn't a bad science award. It is, as their site says:
The Ig Nobel Prizes honor achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think. The prizes are intended to celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative — and spur people's interest in science, medicine, and technology.
This is the type of science that wins an Ig Noble.
tThere is more barley in a pilsner than a stout. Guinness is one of the lightest beers ut there.
The rewards don't hurt the banks. They hurt the merchants you redeem them at. They are the ones that take the hit, not the card company/bank.
They found all 22 out of 1000 but the article doesn't tell us how many they declined to tell us how many false positives they got. Which, in my book, makes this story useless for science but serve a use as a PR use. "Those crazy zionists have mice that can detect bombs!"
Also the story doesn't mention anything about the process or methods. Are the mice running free? Trapped in a box? Is the mouse live or dead? Is it live or dead in a box? Does it use smell or does it turn colors?
Sure some of that is joking but this article really doesn't say much and leaves a lot to speculation.
When I read it I was visualizing Real Genius and hearing "Woodpecker From Mars" by Faith No More. Two great tastes that taste great together.
It's a trap!
This is obiously a message from pac-man that he wants us to be reminded of his eternal love. If every Jesus shapped food item has this kind of meating then that is the only conclusion I can draw.
While a double blind test of the plaintiff would be ideal it can't be done without the consent of the plaintiff because you can't force someone to testify against themselves.
What we need is a good double blind study but the problem is that no one wants to spend that kind of money funding something that has been informally tested over and over again with consistent results.
3 horse power 50cc honda build with a top speed of about 30 MPH? That sounds like the engin they use on their scooters. I have 4 of them and they run for ever. Without any modifications or hypermileing they will get between 70 and 100 mpg.
How about we nominate the guy from all those stories about the 40th aniversery of the internet that we had to listen to in October? Can't remember his name but he worked at DARPA and got tired of having to change seats every time he wanted to use a different computer and was also tired of not being able have two computers in two different parts of the country talk to eachother instead of having to type things over and over again.
This guy isn't a robber or murderer.
We dont know that. Funny thing about drugs is that they do kill a lot of people. Not in the "if you smoke crack one time you will die" time frame but in the each little hit brings you closer to death and in the "6 police killed in a Mexico drug sting" kind of ways.
If you haven't heard the Skeptoid episode on the topic of cell phones and cancer its worth a listen.
http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4117
This way the practitioners of astrology could finally offer up proof that the planets have an influence on our lives. Then they could have gotten not just the Netflix money but the JREF money too.
Or maybe they were just not thinking? Naa.
This is going to sound like I have way too much time on my hands. Which was true till I got into even more twisted uses of my time.
I can testify that there is a market for low res mono-chromatic pr0n. My website is dedicated to it. While ASCII art pr0n doesn't pay that much it has opened the door to paying gigs that have netted me thousands of dollars in commissions. Rule 34 for fun and profit.
This is great. We now have a large pool of people who qualify to win the JREF million dollar prise. If just one of them can prove in a double blind test then they can win the money and get out of Iraq. Science be praised.
Did anyone else think it odd that this had nothing to do with Dune? This wasn't the Holtzman Effect I was looking for.
I don't see it that way. If you are a shopping minded person [conspicuous consumer] and walking through the mall you can hold your phone up and get info loaded on all off the sales in your path.
Any marketing person knows it doesn't have to be better than signs in the window. It just has to offer an edge over the signs in the window next to yours or reinforce the sign in your window.
Is anyone else seeing this as a way for shopers to find out were the sales are happening? Either on the street or even in a store itself. This could be the replacement for the vanishing newspaper that stores need for their ads.
Might also be really handy for finding houses of ill repute when traveling to other countries. :)
Were the zombies filled with rage?
One of the problems with the internet is that it gives people a chance to self select themselves into a tiny little corner of interstes that creates an echo chamber. I don't want recomendations from people I know to be prone to confermation bias. I want recomendations from a large body of evidance showing both pro's and con's. Nothing against Facebook, its just their users I have an issue with.
And in space the weight of the batteries isn't 460 pounds either.
I strongly recomend Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan. It does a really good idea of exploring why and how science works and has changed the world, for good and bad, through time. As an added bonus you get a full set of debunking tools to learn how to spot junk pretending to be science.
I played with it a bit but didn't really know if I could do anything with it. The first thing I really did was find "mc". I typed it in and looked at the screen. It looked like X-Tree. A little tear formed in my eye. All the sudden I knew that everything was going to be OK. From here I could do anything I needed. I grew out of it in about a week but it that flash back to something known was all I needed to take command.
I look like the poster child for heavy metal and testosterone injections. In order to help soften up my image with women I put cute little dino and bug stickers on my netbook. Got them at a crafts store for $2 a book while I was picking up knitting supplies. I look manly, my netbook doesn't need to.
I am often told by women that their first impression of me is that I am tall dark and intimidating. Anything can do to give them an excuse to think otherwise is fine by me.