Press Clips - 2001

What the press has to say about us

Scroll down to find separate sections for reports in languages other than English.

• "Company Removes Signatures from Famous Lawn Ornaments," The Maui News, December 29, 2001
• "Groups raise ruckus over flamingo designer's missing signature," Daytona Beach News-Journal, December 28, 2001
• "He's Not in the Pink," Newsday, December 26, 2001
• "The Plastic Pink Flamingo Boycott," Here and Now [NPR], December 24, 2001
• "Unsigned flamingo bottom has the purists squawking," USA Today, December 21, 2001
• "2001 Ig Nobel Prizes," APS News, December 2001
• "Imbroglio brewing over the authenticity of pink flamingos," Blather, December 18, 2001
• "Harvard’s Ig Nobel Prizes spoof the real thing," Earth Times, December 17, 2001
• "Weird Science," The Guardian, December 17, 2001
• "Troy's Still at It," Netsurfer Digest, December 13, 2001
• " MAD DOG: I'm Beginning to Shop a Lot Like Christmas," AlterNet, December 11, 2001
• "Bear-Proof Suit Scares Off Grizzly," New Scientist, December 10, 2001
• "The Trials of RoboBear," ABC News, December 6, 2001
• "Bear Suit," Yahoo News, December 5, 2001
• "'Bear-Proof' Suit to be Put to the Test," New Scientist, December 3, 2001
• "Only in it for the Bears," The Guardian, December 3, 2001
• "UM’s Joel Slemrod Wins Ig Nobel Award," UROP Newsline, December 2001
• "I'm ignored again in Ig Nobel ignominy," Business Edge, November 29, 2001
• "Osama's Nuclear Plans Half-Baked," Wired News, November 20, 2001
• "Osama Goes Monkeyfishing," The Wall Street Journal, November 19, 2001
• "Phoney Bomb Humor Fools Taliban?" Alternet, November 19, 2001
• "Al Qaeda Duped?" The Village Voice, November 16, 2001
• "Taliban Thwarted," The Daily Rotten, November 16, 2001
• "Study of injuries caused by falling coconuts wows Ig Nobel judges," Canadian Medical Association Journal, November 13, 2001
• "A whole two pages of titles collected by G. Neil Martin...," New Scientist, November 10, 2001
• "Award was nutty but nice for safety expert," Montreal Gazette, October 30, 2001
• "Recent, recognized research is a hard nut to crack," Kansas City Star, October 28, 2001
• "IgNobelist holds forth on nose-picking," Times of Iindia, October 26, 2001
• "News of the annual Ig Nobel prize," Financial Mail [South Africa], October 26, 2001
• "UNDER-EASE Protective Underwear for Flatulence," Howard Stern Show, October 26, 2001
• "2001 Ig Nobel Prize Awards," Portland Mercury, October 26, 2001
• "It's not Rocket Science," Toronto Globe & Mail, October 23, 2001
• "Make Dinner Go With a Bang," Sunday Times [London], October 21, 2001
• "Today's summary: IgNobel Prizes, and the Annals of Improbable Research," Beware-of-Art, October 20, 2001
• "Indians are more Ignoble than Nobel," Financial Express [India], October 16, 2001
• "Ig Nobel prizes for research," Mondaypaper [Capetown], October 15-22, 2001
• "You might expect the Annals of Improbable Research to be similarly frivolous, but...," Sunday Times [London], October 14, 2001
• "RHINOTILLEXOMANIA: Habitual or obsessive nose-picking," World Wide Words, October 13, 2001
• "Reminders unscrambled from Ig Nobel awards," The Lancet, October 13, 2001
• "Ignoble," Economic Times [India], October 13-18, 2001
• "Researchers Accept Not-So-Nobel Awards," Science, October 12, 2001
• "Let Me Educate You - The Ig Nobels," News24, October 12, 2001
• "Ig Nobels raise a welcome smile", Nature, October 11, 2001
• "Editorial: Ignoble Honour," Times of India, October 11, 2001
• "The Igs," Netsurfer, October 11, 2001
• "Ig Nobel But Never Ig nored," McGill Reporter, October 11, 2001
• "2001 Ig Nobels marked by characteristic hijinks as scientists frolic," Harvard Gazette, October 11, 2001
• "Achievements noble and otherwise ," The Business Times [Singapore], October 11, 2001
• "This year's 'Ig Nobel' awards are a gas," USA Today, October 10, 2001
• "Ignobel Awards," North Texas Skeptics, October 10, 2001
• "Patently theatre in the round," The Age [Australia]. October 9, 2001
• "The 2001 Ig Nobel Prizes," Engineering News [Australia], October 9, 2001
• "Ig Nobel night includes nuptials," Boston Globe, October 9, 2001
• "UBC study wins tongue-in-cheek prize," Vancouver Sun, October 8, 2001
• "IGNOBEL PRIZE WINNERS," Morning Sidekick, October 8, 2001
• "Ig Nobels salute over-achievers in the competitive field of senseless inanity," South China Morning Post, October 8, 2001
• "Twisted List: Prize-Winning Science," TechTV, October 8, 2001
• "Honouring the Ignobel," News in Science [Australian Broadcasting Corp.], October 8, 2001
• "Nobel prize spoof given for dubious achievements," nineMSN, October 7, 2001
• "IG-Nobel Prize 2001 for India," Indernet, October 2001
• "UBC assistant professor captures Ig Nobel Prize," Vancouver Province, October 7, 2001
• "Ig Nobel Awards," The Independent [London], October 7, 2001
• "Weird Science Awards," Fox News, October 6, 2001
• "IgNobel Awards," Slashdot, October 6, 2001
• "Quite an honor," Boston Globe, October 6, 2001
• "OUR ENJOYMENT of our favourite science awards ceremony--the Ig Nobels--is enhanced this year," New Scientist, October 6, 2001
• "Ig Nobel for Indian scientists who dig deep," Times of India, October 5, 2001
• "Giants of the improbable claim their due reward," The Guardian, October 5, 2001
• "Clean-air underpants inventor wins science prize," Ananova, October 5, 2001
• "Canadians win Ig Nobel awards," CNews, October 5, 2001
• "Bizarre Contribution to the World," City Press [South Africa], October 5, 2001
• "Falling Coconuts Study Scoops Ig Nobel Medicine Prize," New Scientist, October 5, 2001
• "Ig Nobel Prizes recognize research on the fringe," Reuters Health, October 5, 2001
• "In praise of apostrophes," BBC News, October 5, 2001
• "Ig Nobel pair tries to nail the bogey of nose-picking," The Times Higher Education Supplement, October 5, 2001
• "Shower Curtain Rises on Ig Nobels," Wired News, October 5, 2001
• "Hilarity wins at Ig Nobel Prize show," Harvard Crimson, October 5, 2001
• "Larry Sherman an Ig Nobel Laureate," Miami University News Briefs, October 5, 2001
• "IgNobel Prizes Award Research on the Fringe," Reuters, October 5, 2001
• "Ig Nobel Prizes awarded for "achievements" like Stalin World and airtight underwear," Chronicle of Higher Education, October 5, 2001
• "Seriously, silly scholar is gleeful to be picked," Cleveland Plain Dealer, October 5, 2001
• "Ig Nobels recognize silly science," MSNBC, October 5, 2001
• "Honoring Science's Oddest," Wired News, October 4, 2001
• "Ignobility Tonight," Harvard Crimson, October 4, 2001
• "Ig Nobel Prizes to be handed out at Harvard," Yale Daily News, October 4, 2001
• "Handbags, double-glazing and the Nobel Prize," Telegraph, October 4, 2001
• "Boffins gather to study farting ... it must be the Ig Nobel awards," Sunday Herald [Scotland], September 30, 2001
• "Nothing like Ig Nobel awards for comic relief," Nashua Telegraph, September 26, 2001
• "Scientists to wed at this year's Ig Nobels," Harvard Gazette, September 20, 2001
• "Interview with the editor of AIR and the editor of Scientific American, The Connection, NPR, August 20, 2001.
• "A BOSTON GLOBE EDITORIAL: Not So Silly Science," Boston Globe, July 30, 2001
• "THE IG-NOBEL PRIZE," Popular Science Net, 2001
• "The 74-Year Yawn Test," The Times [London], June 7, 2001 (and see this commentary from J.S. Mainstone)
• "Flows the Don" [about the Luxiriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists], Lingua Franca, May/June 2001
• "It's time to nominate the Ig-worthy," World Oil Magazine, May 2001
• "IG-NOBEL's AT NSF? How Curious & Creative Humor Can Improve Science & Engineering Literacy," NSF Sci-Tech Library Newsletter, April 24, 2001
• "To Ig Nobel-ly Go...", Beyond 2000, April 4, 2001
• "Improbable Cause -- Researchers examine the lighter side of science," Horizon Air Magazine, April 2001
• "Apples and oranges have previously been shown to be remarkably similar," British Medical Journal, April 14, 2001
• "Psychotherapy. Studies shows that it works best on people who don't need it in the first place," Arts & Letters Daily, April 2001
• "Research Question — Why Is This Woman Smiling?" Delaware Renaissance, April 2001.
• "You just can't call yourself a scientist unless...," Chemistry & Industry, March 5, 2001
• "Ig Nobel Prize for MRI", The Science Show [Australian Broadcasting Corporation], February 24, 2001
• "Other than seeking the answer to the question, "How do you tell what's important and what's not, and what's real and what's not...", Houston Chronicle, February 22, 2001
• "Mensa at the Ig Nobels," Mensa Bulletin, February 2001
• "Comedian Victor Borge was not merely wonderful, he was...," Arts & Letters Daily, February 2, 2001
• "The Ig Nobel Prizes...", Annals of Clinical Biochemistry, January, 2001
• "The Far Side of Science," Riverdeep, January 18, 2001
• "The Snark Hunter Award: Annals of Improbable Research," Skeptic.net, date rather fuzzy
• "Zany Science Journal Tests Postal Tolerance," Linn's Stamp News, January 15, 2001 [About "Postal Experiments"]
• "Comparing apples and oranges: a randomised prospective study," British Medical Journal, January, 2001

Text - non-English

• "Ein High-Tech-Ritter im Kampf gegen Schläger, Jeeps und Bären, Frankfurter Allgemeine [Germany], December 9, 2001
• "Törésteszt grizzlyvel," Impresszum [Hungary], December 4, 2001
• "Alte Männer verschätzen sich in der Anzahl ihrer Sexual-Partner," Laborjournal [Germany], December 2001
• "Observatorio. Os Premios Nobel," El Correo Gallego [Spain], October 29, 2001
• "Premi igNobel, quando la scienza fa ridere," Corriere Della Sera [Italy], October 2001
• "Ig Nobel 2001," Opslagstavle [Denmark], October 23, 2001
• "Jes´li nie Nobel to ... Ig Nobel?," Doz & Belagle [Poland], October 22, 2001
• "Od kopanja nosa do gaEa s filterom", Vecernji [Croatia], October 21, 2001
• "Elogio de la Estupidez," Caretas [Peru], October 18, 2001
• "Lenin?kas apdovanotas pasauline Ig Nobel premija," Online Sci [Lithuania], October 18, 2001
• "Australiër vond het wiel uit in juni 2001," Natuur & Teechnik [The Netherlands], October 17, 2001
• "Rocznicowe anty-Noble," Wi rtualny Wszechswiat [Poland], October 17, 2001
• "Innobles y divertidos", El Norte de Castilla [Spain], October 14, 2001
• "NOBEL E IG-NOBEL 2001 -- Il Mit si espande, Harvard si diverte," Il Sole 24 [Italy], October 14, 2001
• "Lauréats du Prix Ig-Nobel 2001," Le Linguophile [France], October 2001
• "IgNobel-díj," Nepszabadsag [Hungary], October 13, 2001
• "Ig Nobel Prize Winners 2001" Van Hoa [Vietnam], October 2001
• "Ig-Nobel, o le scienze immaginifiche," La Repubblica [Italy], October 11, 2001
• "Ganadores del Premio Ig Nobel, 2001", Escepticos Venezuela [Venezuela], October 2001
• "Forschung auf Abwegen," Die Zeit [Germany], October 11, 2001
• "Ig-Nobel Prize", SCIENZA DIVERTENTE [Italy], October 2001
• "Ig Nobel & Nobel 2001,"News.Astro.hr [Hungary], October 10, 2001
• "Ig Nobel 2001," Radio Lider [Brazil], October 2001
• "Ëó÷øèå èç õóäøèõ," KB [Russia] , October 2001
• "Les Prix Ig Nobel 2001 - Les scientifiques s’amusent," Cyberpresse [Canada], October 10, 2001
• "E o Ig Nobel vai para... a idéia mais maluca!" Canal Kids [Brazil] October 2001
  "La scienza improbabile," Erewhon [Italy], October 2001
• "Völlig unnütze Erfindungen," Die Welt [Germany], October 9, 2001
• "Ganar un Nobel como sea ," La Vanguardia [Spain], October 9, 2001
• "Ig Nobelpreis geht an Unterwäsche mit Flatulenzfilter," G-O, [Germany], October 8, 2001
• "Wenn Wissenschaftler sich über ihre Disziplinen lustig machen," Ärzte Zeitung [Germany], October 8, 2001
• "Por Que É Que as Cortinas do Chuveiro Fogem para Dentro?," Publico [Portugal], October 8, 2001
• "La science pour rire," L'Agence Science-Presse [Canada], October 8, 2001
• "Die Geschichte der Menschheit," Wissenschaft-Online [Germany], October 7, 2001
• "Mis-prijzen voor luchtdichte onderbroek en patent op wiel," Dagblad de Limburger [The Netherlands], October 6, 2001
• "Ig-Nobelpreise für gasdichte Unterhosen und höllisch schwarze Löcher," Bild der Wissenschaft [Germany] October 6, 2001
• "Priset lufttett prompetruse," BA [Norway], October 6, 2001
• "Trao gi?i IgNobel cho nh?ng phát minh k? qu?c nh?t," VN Express [Vietnam], October 6, 2001
• "Os laureados de 2001 ," Ciência Hoje [Brazil] October 5, 2001
• "Patenterade hjulet, fick alternativt Nobelpris," Computersweden [Sweden] October 5, 2001
• "Ig Nobel celebra ciência improvável," O Universo Online [Brazil], October 3, 2001
• "Se conceden los IGNobels," Sabado DN [Spain], July 29, 2001
• "Nicht lustig, aber sinnlos," Ornament & Verbrechen [Germany], June 15, 2001

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