Press Clips - 2000

What the press has to say about us

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• "The Duster's in the Mail," Sunday Herald Sun [Australia], December 31, 2000
• "Funny Old World [the Ig Nobels]", Private Eye, December 29, 2000
• "Comparing Comparing Fruits," British Medical Journal, December 22, 2000
• "Can you really mail just about anything?" Postal News, December 21, 2000
• "Here's one for the book..." PostAm [Association for Postal Commerce], December 20, 2000.
• "Better Luck Next Year", Praxis Post, December 13, 2000.
• "The Nobel nuts of science", Herald Sun, December 5, 2000
• "Debate and lawsuits over evolution," American School Board Journal, December 1999
• "Think science isn't funny? Guess again," Northern California Bohemian, November 23-29, 2000
• "Love of Science," Internal Medicine News, November 15, 2000
• "The Far Side of Science," Riverdeep, November 9, 2000
• "Australians can breathe easy," vLifeScience, November 2000
• "Cause and effect goes down the pan," The Guardian, November 9, 2000.
• "Get Ready for the Next Awards," Chemistry & Industry, November 6, 2000
• "Pomp and Circus Antics at Ig Nobels", Physician's Weekly, November 6, 2000
• "Steven Lewis on an alternative Nobel Prize ceremony," South China Morning Post, November 5, 2000
• "Choppers to buzz Tux colonies in bid to make penguins keel," The Register, November 2, 2000
• "Robber's lack of disguise wins Ig Nobel prize", Daily Telegraph, November 2, 2001
• "Breathless Aussie wins Ig Nobel," Australasian Science, November 1, 2000
• "Airy-fairy science roasted,", Brisbane Courier Mail, November 1, 2000
• "Ig Nobel prizes," Eastciti [Singapore], November 1, 2000.
• "Harvard "Honours" Dalhousie Researcher with International Award," Connection, October-November 2000
• "The Ig® Nobel Prize for Literature," At the Margin, October 31, 2000
• "TRUTH STRANGER THAN FICTION," Brieftime, October 30, 2000
• "This year's Ig Nobel awards...," The Iranian Times, October 23, 2000
• "Not Very Nobel," Industry Standard, October 23, 2000
• "Honouring the great muddle that is life," The Canberra Times, October 19, 2000
• "The Ig Nobel Prize honors scientific-like achievements," USA Today, October 19, 2000
• "Let's go for the untouchable IgNobel," New Zealand Herald, October 17, 2000
• "BMJ wins an Ig Nobel prize," British Medical Journal, October 14, 2000
• "FEEDBACK...", New Scientist, October 14, 2000
• "Misappliance of science," The Guardian, October 14, 2000
• "Ig Nobels flush out the world's top brains : Bad science gets good reputation at 10th annual prize ceremony," Harvard Gazette, October 13, 2000 (with lots of photos)
• "Boldly Going Where No One Should," Harvard School of Public Health -- ATS, October 13, 2000
• "In Loo of a Nobel Diary," The Scotsman, October 13, 2000
• "Ig Nobel", The Tech [MIT], October 13 (with lots of photos)
• "Sex, Frogs, and Danger in the Loo -- The 2000 Ig Nobel Prizes," HMS Beagle, October 13, 2000
• "Ig Nobel glory for levitating frogs and collapsing toilets," Nature, October 12, 2000
(requires subscription)
• "No Ig-nominy in winning an Ig Nobel; it's a prize," San Diego Union-Tribune, October 10, 2000
• "Ig Nobel!" On-Line Journalism Review, October 10, 2000.
• "Review of the 10th First Annual Igs," WMBR Radio, MIT, October 10, 2000.
• "A 10th sendup for Ig Nobel research," Boston Globe, October 10, 2000
• "Ig Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to British Royal Navy," Pravda, October 9, 2000
• "Scientists Get Ig Nobel Prize for LoosWork," Scottish Daily Record, October 9, 2000
• "You Say Eureka, I Say ...Maybe," New York Times Magazine, October 8, 2000
• "Harvard prize for doctors at research's bottom end," The Scotsman, October 7, 2000
• "Research on toilets is science too," Sify News [India], October 7, 2000
• "Mad professors get Ig Nobel awards," South China Morning Post, October 7, 2000
• "No Goofing Around: CU Prof Wins Spoof," Ithaca Journal, October 7, 2000.
• "Arizonan honored for dubious achievement," Arizona Republic, October 6, 2000
• "Dubious Achievements Garner Ig Nobel Prizes," SouthCoast Today, October 6, 2000
• "Ig Nobels Honor Odd Innovations," Harvard Crimson, October 6, 2000
• "Nobel prize spoof given for dubious achievements," and "Ig Noble Prize winners by category," San Francisco Chronicle, October 6, 2000.
• "Ig Nobel Prizes Honor Love, Intelligence," ScienceNow, October 6, 2000
(requires subscription)
• "Pop! In the name of love", Richmond Times-Dispatch, October 6, 2000
• "Sex, frogs and rocking loos at the Ig Nobels," BioMed Central, October 6, 2000
• "Ig Nobel Prizewinners Flushed With Success," Times Higher Education Supplement, October 6, 2000
• "Who is the smartest person in the world?," Times Higher Education Supplement, October 6, 2000
• "The Method in this Madness," and "What's the Deal with These Awards?" National Post [Canada], October 6, 2000
• "In Praise of Floating Frogs," BBC, October 6, 2000 [NOTE: features a link to a recorded interview with Glasgow toilet researcher Gordon McNaughton]
• "Bubble Wrap Rules", Richmond Times-Dispatch, October 4, 2000
• "This is the month of the Nobel prize awards," Management Today, October 2000
• "Second Place Blues," Wilson Quarterly, Autumn 2000.
• "Insider: Everything you need to know," Bangkok Post, September 29, 2000
• "Bubble wrap is best used for unconventional purposes," Nashua Telegraph, September 27, 2000
• "How to Win an Ig Nobel," Utne Reader, August 2000
• "No, It's Not All True.(teaching teens to think critically)," School Library Journal, August, 2000
• Physicists respond to AIR's top 20 Screw-Ups of the Twentieth Century list, APS News, July 2000
• "Mmm, tastes like chicken: Common ancestors could account for phenomenon," Pittburgh Post-Gazette, July 17, 2000
• "Eureka! Every Year at the Ig Nobel Awards, Weird Science Gets Its Just Desserts," Bizarre, June 2000
• "The Lukewarm Chili Peppers," Los Angeles Times, May 3, 2000. [interview with Ig Nobellian Paul Bosland], (requires article purchase)
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• "Not in Kansas Anymore," Sky and Telescope, April, 2000
• "Death to Bad Language!," IEEE Sectrum , April, 2000. [about AIR's search for the most indecipherable published technical jargon]
• "Not-so-hot chile," New Mexico Resources, Spring 2000
• "Hot Cars, Smelly Suits, and Smart Sheep", The Realist, Spring, 2000
• "The Plastic Pink Flamingo," American Scholar, Spring 2000. [About Ig Nobel winner Don Feathrestone]
• "The Annals of Improbable Research," FFWD, May 2000
• Top Twenty Technological Screw-ups of the 20th Century [reprint of AIR article -- with added photos], APS News, May 2000
• "Dispatches from the Field: Improbable Science Humor", Exploratorium, February 20, 2000.
• "'Ig Nobel' Prizes: Marc Abrahams," US 1 [Princeton, NJ], February 16, 2000.
• "Citation analysis: Democracy on the rocks," Nature, January 27, 2000
• "The Ig Nobel Prize," Hindustan Times, January 10, 2000
• "Funny, informative, funny, educational and funny", Varsity [University of Toronto], January 6, 2000.
• "Ig Nobel Prizes 2000," Science Show [Australian Broadcasting Corp.], January 4, 2000
• "Colossal blunders: the short list," Star-Tribune (Minneapolis, MN), Jan 3, 2000
• "Weird science and fiction", The National Post, January 1, 2000.
• "'A list highlighting dim moments", The Boston Globe, January 1, 2000.

Text - non-English

• "Ig-Nobel 2000! Câmpurile magnetice si raporturile sexuale," Magazin [Romania], Dec 15, 2000.
• "Ig-Nobel-Preise vergeben," Region-Hochrhein [Germany], 2000.
• "Decernes depuis unde douzine d'annes de..." La discotheque ideale, December 11, 2000.
• "Ig Nobels," Palais de la Decouverte [France], 2000
• "Un Premio per Chi Scopre L'Inutile," La Repubblica [Italy], October 23, 2000
• "Achievements: Not Very Nobel," The Industry Standard, October 23, 2000
• "Jes´li nie Nobel to ... Ig Nobel?," Adoz [Poland], October 22, 2001
• "Les Nobel du farfelu," Le Nouvel Observateur, October 19, 2000
• "PREMIATI PER SCHERZO STUDI STRAVAGANTI ""L'amore e' una malattia"" E tre italiani vincono l'Ig-Nobel...", La Stampa, October 18, 2000
• "Il premio per la chimica va a un pool italiano," Il Sole 24 [Italy], October 15, 2000
• "''Ruft beim Schuss ganz einfach Bumm'", Die Zeit, October 12, 2000
• "Un faux Nobel pour le Peep show en IRM," Liberation, October 12, 2000
• "Moon Wins Ig Nobel Prize," DongaScience [Korea], October 12, 2000
• "Premios IG Nobel 2000", Ciudad Futura [Spain], October 11, 2000.
• "A hülyeség Nobel-díjasai," Index [Hungary], October 10, 2000
• "'Ig Nobel'"-Preise vergeben," MorgenWelt [Germany], October 10, 2000
• "Blick ins Internet," Sueddeutsche Zeitung, October 10, 2000
• "Wenn die Kadetten üübumm'' rufen," Sudwest Presse [Germany], October 9, 2000
• "Ig Nobel premia pesquisas inúteis e ridículas," O Estado de Sao Paolo [Brazil], October 9, 2000
• "SA Company Rakes In Ig Nobel Peace Award", Mail and Guardian (Johannesburg), October 8, 1999
• "Lenin?kas apdovanotas pasauline Ig Nobel premija," Penki kontinentai [Lithuania], October 8, 2001
• "Ig-Nobel-Preise fuer skurrile Forschungen in den USA verliehen," Sueddeutsche Zeitung, October 7, 2000
• "Zang, dans en luim", NRC Handelsblad, October 7, 2000
• "Alternatieve Nobelprijs voor 'stimulerend onderzoek'," UK [Groningen], October 6, 2000
• "Pobjednici Ig Nobelovih nagrada za 2000.-tu", News.Astro.hr [Hungary], Ocotber 6, 2000
• "Unbegabt und sich dessen nicht bewusst," Bild der Wissenschaft, October 6, 2000
• "Forschung, die die Welt nicht braucht," Spiegel, October 6, 2000
• "Marinha Brit‰nica Vence Ig Nobel da Paz," Publico [Lisbon], October 6, 2000
• "Ig-Nobelpreise fuer Kaulquappen und die Chemie der wahren Liebe", Deutsche Presse-Agentur (DPA), October 6, 2000
• "Alles andere als nobel," Bild der Wissenschaft, October 2000
• "Harvard's Wissenschafts-Cabaret," Medical Tribune [Swizerland], October 2000
• "L'Italia? Degna dell'Ig-nobel," Nautilus [Italy], October 2000
• "Nicht lustig, aber sinnlos," Ornament und Verbrechen [Germany], June 15, 2000
• Nachrichten aus der Chemie [Germany], April 2000. Contains many articles about [and some reprinted from] AIR, the Ig Nobel Prizes, and humor in science.
• "Finding humor in science," Los Alamos National Laboratory Daily News Bulletin, February 10, 2000
• "Anti-Nobelpriset", Etc. [Sweden], January, 2000.
• [2-page spread about AIR and the Ig Nobel Prizes], De Standaard [Belgium], January 3, 2000.

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