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On the other end of the spectrum I’ve come to believe the Razzie Awards are just pointlessly mean.
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The Ig Nobel’s also have the best solution to prize recipients’ overlong acceptance speeches:
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I love how (at 7:13) an absolutely classic piece of research is shown (still taught in psych classes), which I had no idea had won an Ig Nobel award, and then I have no idea how but the girl just seemed to levitate away.
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Poor Benoit Mandelbrot!
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You were probably thinking of the Darwin awards, which had a prominent Florida men participation through the years. darwinawards dot com if you want to check them out
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I think Andre Geim’s (the first person to win both an Ig Nobel and Nobel prize) comment needs repeating more
Frankly, I value both my Ig Nobel prize and Nobel prize at the same level and for me Ig Nobel prize was the manifestation that I can take jokes, a little bit of self-deprecation always helps.
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That’s certainly a classic. I had the pleasure of translating their book The Invisible Gorilla into Dutch and had tea and a chat with Dan Simons when he visited Amsterdam to promote its publication. It contains some striking observations that have really stayed with me - which I can’t say of all non-fiction that I’ve translated.
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