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Cubed Wombat Poop, why Your Left Scrotum Runs Hot, Among Ig Nobel Winners:
Prizes honor "achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think."
Over the years, curious intrepid scientists have gleaned insight into why the wombat's poo is cube-shaped, explored the magnetic properties of living and dead cockroaches, and determined that a man's left testicle really does run hotter than the right. These and other unusual research topics were honored tonight in a ceremony at Harvard University's Sanders Theater to announce the 2019 recipients of the annual Ig Nobel Prizes.
Established in 1991, the Ig Nobels are a good-natured parody of the Nobel Prizes and honor "achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think." The unapologetically campy award ceremony features mini-operas, scientific demos, and the 24/7 lectures, whereby experts must explain their work twice: once in 24 seconds, and the second in just seven words. Acceptance speeches are limited to 60 seconds. And as the motto implies, the research being honored might seem ridiculous at first glance, but that doesn't mean it is devoid of scientific merit.
The winners receive eternal Ig Nobel fame and a ten-trillion dollar bill from Zimbabwe. It's a long-running Ig Nobel gag. Zimbabwe stopped using its native currency in 2009 because of skyrocketing inflation and hyperinflation; at its nadir, the 100-trillion dollar bill was roughly the equivalent of 40 cents US. (Earlier this year the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe introduced the "zollar" as a potential replacement.) The 2009 Ig Nobel Prize for Mathematics was awarded to the then-head of the RBZ, Gideon Gono, "for giving people a simple, everyday way to cope with a wide range of numbers — from very small to very big — by having his bank print bank notes with denominations ranging from one cent ($.01) to one hundred trillion dollars ($100,000,000,000,000)."
[...] If you happen to be in the Cambridge, Massachusetts, area on Saturday afternoon, September 14, most of the new winners will give free public talks at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The lectures will also be webcast.
My personal favorite, in a just-how-do-you-stop-the-squirming kind of way was the Engineering Citation awarded to Iman Farahbakhsh "for inventing a diaper-changing machine for use on human infants."
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 13 2019, @07:56PM (18 children)
Dear moron,
Spamming this site doesn't make us think any less of whoever this "Barbara Hudson" is. We're only concerned with the quality of posts, not who posts them.
Yours are spam and will continue to be modded that way, unless of course, you decide to make a useful contribution.
All you are accomplishing is banning the Tor/VPN exit node IPs that you use. That's no skin off any of our noses.
Unlike other sites, we all get *lots* of mod points every single day. As such, modding you to oblivion is no big deal.
Since you don't seem to understand that, perhaps you should see a neurologist or a psychiatrist, as you seem to have a serious disorder.
I don't really expect this comment to have any effect on you, but I'm putting this out there just in case.
I'll say it again, in case you didn't get it the first time: You are the one we hold accountable for *your* posts. Not this "Barbara Hudson." That won't change and you're just wasting *your* time. Modding you down takes about a second.
In conclusion,you're unbalanced, stupid, off your meds and/or some or all of those. Seek professional help. You need it.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 13 2019, @08:03PM (6 children)
Don't be too hard on him, he probably has an abnormally small pee pee.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 13 2019, @08:34PM (5 children)
You said "hard." That's dirty!
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday September 13 2019, @09:42PM (4 children)
Hard can be used in sentences that aren't dirty.
There's nothing dirty about a Big Hard Di_k or a small Floppy Di_k for example.
Anyone can assume we are safely talking about computer storage unless we also discuss a Mi_ro SD _ard, or SSD drives.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 13 2019, @09:48PM
You're all correct. I should have said he has an abnormally micro-soft pee pee. Please excuse my SJW mistake.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 13 2019, @09:57PM (2 children)
You said "storage." That's dirty!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 13 2019, @10:09PM
You said "dirty." That's dirty!
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Saturday September 14 2019, @01:15AM
Storage is public.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 13 2019, @11:15PM (4 children)
"Waaah, waaah" like a frusted petulant child you are: LMAO - got your goat easily, lol - keep "ReAcTinG"... it's been a REAL PLEASURE showing you all how helpless you are to stop me IF I choose to keep this up. Shouldn't have SHOT YOUR PIEHOLE OFF @ me "martyb" you stupid little punk. That's right. Everyone knows it by seeing me run rings around you easily 100's of times and there is ZERO YOU CAN DO TO STOP ME, hahahaha!
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 14 2019, @03:49AM (3 children)
Original AC here.
Nope. Not martyb.
it's really pathetic that you get your jollies like this, but you didn't get my goat, as it's you acting like a fourth grader.
I find it amusing to see you debase yourself like this.
We value free speech here, so you go right ahead. We'll be here long after you get bored and crawl back into your hosts file.
Kissy kissy, baby!
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 14 2019, @02:12PM (2 children)
I see you're STILL dancing to MY t une, lol! It truly makes me lmao seeing you HIDE from me by UNIDENTIFIABLE anonymous posts like the weasel you are 1st of all. Secondly, you are REACTING even moreso trying to "play superior" vs. me - how can you even TRY do that when the fact is you CANNOT STOP ME. Blocking my methods of resposting OR effete 'downmods' everyone sees anyway, are you? Doesn't work & funny I am posting again then easily circumventing your ineffectual attempts to stop me. Clue: You can't - No limits here is why. Get used to it. You are truly inferior & continue proving it. Makes me laugh @ you and you can bet everyone else is too.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 14 2019, @03:46PM (1 child)
It's OK because the longer you stay here spewing your vomit vocabulary the less you'll be out in public.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 15 2019, @12:21PM
barbara hudson the less you are seen publicly wearing your clown wig to cover up your bald head the better off the world is other than denying them laughter at the hilarity of what you are: One who failed as a man and is also failing at being a real woman when the fact is you are nothing but a chemically castrated nutjob deluding itself it's a real woman also caught stalking and blunders on C and C++ being unsafe on string work when Pascal has no such issue.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Saturday September 14 2019, @03:52PM (5 children)
I don't think "spam" is the correct characterization of the posts. Apparently mindless garbage comes closer.
OTOH, it could be a form of steganography. Perhaps there's a message hidden in there that you just need the appropriate rule to decipher. And "Barbara Hudson" could just be the key to alert intended recipients that they should check for a message.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 14 2019, @09:25PM (4 children)
I think you are missing the obvious. This person is mentally ill. No, I am not being pejorative; I'm quite serious. More and more, I am seeing the signs of mental illness on display in online communication.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 15 2019, @01:06AM (1 child)
While what you say is correct, this is nothing new for this guy. He is Alexander Peter Kowalski and has been venting his disturbed spleen since the 1990s.
I first encountered him in the mid 2000s on the green site, where he would hawk his host file and harass people.
The links below are pretty telling too. The third one should look quite familiar.
https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=821190&start=40 [arstechnica.com]
http://www.thorschrock.com/2008/05/19/how-to-respond-when-people-threaten-to-sue-you-on-the-web/ [thorschrock.com]
http://retrobbs.novabbs.com/index.php?t=tree&goto=1933922& [novabbs.com]
Apparently, he has a bug up his ass with one of our users (Barbara Hudson [soylentnews.org]) and has brought his mentally unbalanced drivel to us.
My recommendation is to continue modding his obvious spam as spam. Eventually he'll probably go away.
And if not, perhaps we can prevail on the site admins to give us all an extra couple of mod points a day just for him.
Regardless, he's no more than a minor inconvenience and should be spam modded/ignored like that other whacko with the violence against women spam. He's long gone, and I'm sure this moron soon will be too.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 15 2019, @02:47PM
"You’re the one who started it" by BarbaraHudson (3785311) July 13, 2019 yet barbara hudson said quoted "trolling the hosts file guy in one easy step The next time you see a post by him, just reply anonymously." by tomhudson (43916) March 31, 2011 and barbara hudson after ending up in jail for a year then IMMEDIATELY on return to /. https://tech.slashdot.or/comments.pl?sid=14311560&cid=58890562 [slashdot.or] started with APK again since APK completely destroyed that tranny bullshitter on C and C++ inferiority to Pascal on string security and speed publicly all verifiable in the post beneath barbara hudson the deluded lunatic that cut its balls off thinking incorrectly "it" is a woman.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 15 2019, @02:56PM
Do you have psychiatric evidence of APK being mentally ill? No. You are libeling him. From what I saw quoted from barbara hudson the tranny fake woman deluding itself it is a real woman in this exchange it instigated a concerted effort of libel by unidentifiable anonymous posts stalking of APK on slashdot. If anyone is mentally ill it is barbara hudson who was in jail for a year.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 15 2019, @03:08PM
Real evidence of insanity exists in "barbara" hudson itself (really tomhudson) literally slicing off its testicles and penis in a delusion it can become a real woman! 99.999% of real men would declare anyone doing that insane on common sense alone not to mention barbara/tom hudson is caught admittedly stalking apk by unidentifiable anonymous posts https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=33605&page=1&cid=894353#commentwrap [soylentnews.org] easily verified on slashdot.