{"id":2202,"date":"2010-10-02T04:35:16","date_gmt":"2010-10-02T09:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/?p=2202"},"modified":"2010-10-02T04:35:16","modified_gmt":"2010-10-02T09:35:16","slug":"2010-ig-nobels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/2010\/10\/02\/2010-ig-nobels\/","title":{"rendered":"2010 Ig Nobels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/improbable.com\/category\/ig-nobel\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madmarvonline.com\/technorama\/ig-faces-2010.gif?w=640\" alt=\"Ig Nobel faces\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ah, it&#8217;s the Ig Nobel awards season again.  It&#8217;s like Christmas in a geeky way.  They give presents to people for the most bizarre research and inventions of each year.  The Ig Nobel awards bestow a kind of recognition that raises the laureates above their peers, but not in the conventional way.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/improbable.com\/ig\/ig-pastwinners.html\"> winners of the 2010 Ig Nobel prizes<\/a> were announced yesterday.  Notable winners include:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The Engineering Ig Nobel prize winner who <strong>perfected<\/strong> a way to collect whale snot by using a remote controlled helicopter; <\/li>\n<li>The Ig Nobel Peace prize which went to a study which confirmed that swearing does indeed relieve pain<\/li>\n<li>The Ig Nobel Management prize for demonstrating mathematically that organizations would become more efficient if they promoted people at random. (Chuck, could you cc: @mahorstman and then duck and cover?). <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Marv<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, it&#8217;s the Ig Nobel awards season again. It&#8217;s like Christmas in a geeky way. They give presents to people for the most bizarre research and inventions of each year. The Ig Nobel awards bestow a kind of recognition that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/2010\/10\/02\/2010-ig-nobels\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[601,599,600,456],"class_list":["post-2202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-engineering","tag-ig-nobel","tag-prize","tag-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pe53l-zw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2202"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2210,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2202\/revisions\/2210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}