Press Clips - 2003

What the press has to say about us

NOTE: Items listed in red letters are especially entertaining or enlightening.
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• "Daft science cashing in on the bleeding obvious," Times (London), December 31, 2003
• "Good Santa, bad elf," Merrimac River Current, December 26, 2003
• "Santa's lap may be a tough sell for some tots," Fort Worth Star-Telegram, December 25, 2003
• "Only 1% children happy to see Santa, mall study finds," Baltimore Sun, December 22, 2003
• "There Is No Joy in Toyville; Mighty Santa's Striking Out," New York Times, December 16, 2003
• "Kids these days don't smile...," Nature Science Update, December 14, 2003
• "Scared of Santa," Boston Globe, December 14, 2003
• "Ho, Ho, Hum," ScienceNOW, December 12, 2003
• "Santa's coming to town. Big deal," Guardian, December 10, 2003
• "The science of Santa," MSNBC, December 8, 2003
• "Taking comedy seriously," The Tribune, December 7, 2003
• "The Flapjack State," Atlantic Monthly, December 2003
• "Periodic Table display makes the elements more than elemental," News-Gazette, November 27, 2003
• "British physicist sandwiches in some very cheesy research," San Diego Union Tribune, November 26, 2003
• "Dubious Distinction," Boston Globe, November 26, 2003
• "Flatness of Kansas," Time, November 24, 2003
• "He is a Man on a Mission," Gulf News, November 16, 2003
• "Clams open up, snails slow down for this scientist," York Daily Record, November 13, 2003
• "Canada Shut Out at Ig Nobels," Canadian Medical Association Journal, November 11, 2003
• "Ig-Nobel Intentions," Daily Item, November 10, 2003
• "Now comes 'How to cut the perfect cheese sandwich,'" New Scientist, November 8, 2003
• "Dead comes alive to receive Harvard award," Sify News, November 5, 2003
• "Laugh, and then think," Indian Express, November 5, 2003
• "Bollywood's Kaushik to make a film on `dead' IgNoble awardee," Teenstation, November 5, 2003
• "'Dead man alive' gets IG Nobel award," Newindpress, November 5, 2003
• "Meet the dead man talking," Times of India, November 4, 2003
• Excerpt from the book "The Ig Nobel Prizes," Reader's Digest, November 2003
• "Ig Nobels: Prizes With Humor" [with video], CBS News Sunday Morning, November 2, 2003
• "Wizards of the weird: Far-out research not as crazy as it seems," Record, November 2, 2003
• "It's always an honor just to be nominated," American Scientist, November-December 2003
• "Laugh First, Think Later," Internal Medicine News, November 1, 2003
• "Ig Nobel Awards," UROP Newsline, November 2003
• "Igs Nobels on Display," New Scientist, November 1, 2003
• "The Origin of Murphy's Law," VOA News, October 30, 2003
• "What's so ignoble about the Ig Nobel Prize?," Asahi Shimbun, October 27, 2003
• "Round 13 of the Ig Nobels at Harvard," Seed, Fall 2003
• "Research: Studying Facts of Life," Newsweek, October 27, 2003
• "Ig Nobel Prizes," SZNews [China], October 23, 2003
• "Building Better Systems: A Lesson From Murphy's Law," eWeek, October 22, 2003
• "Zimbardo wins Ig Nobel prize for 'silly research,'" Stanford Daily, October 20, 2003
• "They're just that simple," Denver Post, October 19, 2003
• "Feathers Fly at Ig Nobel Ceremony," Science, October 17, 2003
• "Battle of the bull," The Bulletin, October 15, 2003
• "Forsyth Intern Wows Audience at Ig Nobel Awards," INFOrsyth, October 15, 2003
• "Winner of Ig Nobel Prize scratches head to find what's funny," Hindustan Times, October 14, 2003
• "Drive Brainpower," ScienCentral, October 14, 2003
• "The 'Ig Nobel Prize' for chemistry bringing the award to Japan for the second consecutive year," AFP, October 14, 2003
• "Telling the lawn goodbye," St. Petersburg Times, October 14, 2003
• "Far-from-ignoble Awards. Good for sanity," New Indian Express, October 12, 2003
• "Study of London taxi drivers wins Ig Nobel prize," BMJ, October 11, 2003
• "Last week saw the awarding...," Globe and Mail, October 11, 2003
• "Murphy's Law," World Wide Words, October 11, 2003
• "Presenting the 'Igs'," Wall Street Journal, October 10, 2003
• "Spoof Nobels take researchers for a ride," Nature, October 10, 2003
• "How To Drag Your Sheep Ergonomically," Ergonomics Today, October 10, 2003
• "Laureate of all life's delays, traffic etiquette and tong use," Times Higher Education Supplement, October 10, 2003
• "FEEDBACK's favourite awards, the Ig Nobel Prizes," New Scientist, October 9, 2003
• "Parody Nobel Prize," Donga, October 9, 2003
• "Gay sex study of ducks wins ‘useless research’ award," Washington Blade, October 9, 2003
• "Winners' exploits should be ig-nored," San Diego Union-Tribune, October 8, 2003
• "So Stupid" and "No, You Are," Weekly Dig, October 2003
• "Ig Deal," Anorak, October 8, 2003
• "An Over-the-Top Prize That's Better to Give Than to Receive," New York Times, October 7, 2003
• "The 2003 Ig Nobel prizes," Mountain Bike, October 7, 2003
• "Sheep friction study wins top award," Sunday Morning Herald, October 6, 2003
• "Improbable Award-winning Research Available in PDF," Planet PDF, October 6, 2003
• "Homosexual Necrophiliac Ducks Belong on TV," American Enterprise, October, 2003
• "The Annals of Improbable Research," Silicon Valley, October 6, 2003
• "Ig Nobel awards celebrate science's improbable research," San Francisco Chronicle, October 6, 2003
• "Scientist's 'perfect' cheese sandwich," BBC News, October 7, 2003
• "Annual awards celebrate silly science, semiserious studies," Star-Telegram, October 5, 2003
• "Stanford psychologist's proud of school's first Ig Nobel prize," Contra Costa Times, October 5, 2003
• "Nobel Spoof Honours Living Dead," Sunday Times [Johannesburg], October 5, 2003
• "Plebean Pursuits," Ars Technica Newsdesk, October 4, 2003
• "Nobel Spoof Honours Living Dead," Sunday Times [Johannesburg], October 4, 2003
• "Woolly-minded study wins Ig Nobel award," ABC News [Australia], October 4, 2003
• "We here at Picks Central are big fans of the Ig Noble Prize," Yahoo Picks, October 4, 2003
• "'Dead' Indian bags Ignoble Prize," Times of India, October 4, 2003
• "Research on voters' psyche wins offbeat honor," Mercury News, October 4, 2003
• "Ig Noble Award goes to taxi driver study," DeHavilland, October 4, 2003
• "Murphy's Law authors 'recognised'," IAfrica South African News, October 4, 2003
• "IgNobel Awards," Magic City News, October 4, 2003
• "Indian wins the Ignobel Peace Prize," Sify, October 4, 2003
• "Trao gi?i Ig Nobel l?n th? 13 t?i M?," VN Express [Vietnam], October 3, 2004
• "IgNobel for man who spent 18 years to prove he was alive," Times of Oman, October 4, 2003
• "It was a nice try, duckie!," The Sun, October 4, 2003
• "I'm sorry he can't be with us....," BBC News, October 3, 2003
• "Quirky Scientists Win Ig Nobelity," Wired News, October 3, 2003
• "From the Chickens Prefer Beautiful Humans dept.," Animal Behavior Society News, October 3, 2003
• "Feathers Fly at Ig Nobel Ceremony," ScienceNOW, October 3, 2003
• "Cabbie Brain Research," Sky News, October 3, 2003
• "These awards are Ig Nobel," Los Angeles Times," October 3, 2003
• "Ig Nobel Prizes Honor Sheep Draggers, Stop-Sign Theorist, and Other Scholars of the Strange," Chronicle of Higher Education, October 3, 2003
• "The Fame of the Ig Nobel Prize," The Tech [MIT], October 3, 2003
• "Ducks and sheep and chickens, oh my...," Harvard Gazette, October 3, 2003
• "I had those Nobel prize winners in the front of my cab," Evening Standard, October 3, 2003
• "Ig Nobel interview," The World. [Audio], October 3, 2003
• "Aussies win daggy science prize," The Age, October 3, 2003
• "Necrophiliac ducks, clever cabbies and reluctant sheep show why science can be such an Ig Nobel art," and "You may mock gay duck science, but it's not quackery," The Times [London], October 3, 2003
• "Murphy's Law honored -- 50 years late," Washington Times, October 3, 2003
• [VIDEO:] Interview with Nick Spark about the prize for Murphy's Law, Daily Planet, October 3, 2003
• "'Ig Nobels' honour humourous research," CBC News, October 3, 2003
• "Ig Nobel Achievements," CBS News, October 3, 2003
• "Alternate Nobel Prizes celebrate 'losers,'" Badger Herald, October 3, 2003
• "Ig Nobels honor the living ‘dead’," MSNBC, October 3, 2003
• "IgNobles honor founder of dead people club," CNN, October 3, 2003
• "Ig Nobel Awards 2003," Slashdot, October 3, 2003
• "'Dead' Indian bags IgNobel peace prize," Hindustan Times, October 3, 2003
• "Murphy's Law honoured - 50 years late," New Scientist, October 3, 2003
• "Ig Nobel Awards Announced," SciScoop, October 3, 2003
• "At Ig Nobels, Scientists Win For Humor," Harvard Crimson, October 3, 2003
• "Taxi driver brain study earns team spoof Nobel prize," Ananova, October 3, 2003
• "Brain-storming work earns Ig Nobel award for Britain," Guardian, October 3, 2003
• "Fame at last for duck that met an ignoble end," Telegraph, October 3, 2003
• "The Ig Nobel Prizes are laughing matter at Harvard," Lycos News, October 3, 2003
• "Sexual Selection Study Wins Ig Nobel Prize," Creation Safaris, October 3, 2003
• "Fowl scientists bag Ig Nobel," Nature Science Update, October 3, 2003
• "Ig Nobels recognize Indian crusader, Murphy’s Law and more," Reuters, October 2, 2003
• "Duck gay sex study wins 'quack' award," Expatica, October 2, 2003
• "Yukio Hirose of Kanazawa University," AP, October 2, 2003
• "'Ig Nobel' Prizes Awarded at Harvard," Star-Telegram, October 2, 2003
• "One thing may go right for Murphy," Cleveland Plain Dealer, October 2, 2003
• "Stress measure pushes quack science," Rocky Mountain News, October 2, 2003
• "The IG NOBEL PRIZES, the funnier third cousin," Popular Science, October, 2003
• [VIDEO:] Interview with Marc Abrahams about the book 'The Ig Nobel Prizes', Daily Planet, October 1, 2003
• "Razzing the Big Brains," ABC News, September 30, 2003
• "Scientists Vie for Booby Prize," USA Today, September 30, 2003
• "Silly Science Gets Serious," and "A Chat with Marc Abrahams," MSNBC, September 30, 2003
• "These prizes reward improbable research" and "Ignobel results from the past," Boston Globe, September 30, 2003
• "Science you just can't Ig-nore," Baltimore Sun, September 29, 2003
• "The world’s wackiest scientific research", NBC The Today Show, September 29, 2003
• "Now your woofer can speak volumes," Newark Star-Ledger, September 29, 2003
• "The world’s wackiest scientific research," MSNBC, September 29, 2003
• "Scientists swap test tubes for opera glasses," Glasgow Sunday Herald, September 28, 2003
• "Ig Nobel Prizes at Sanders Theatre," Harvard Gazette, September 27, 2003
• "EDWARD TELLER, "father of the hydrogen bomb," New Scientist, September 27, 2003
• "Is Kansas flat as a pancake?" Guardian, September 25, 2003
• "'Ig Nobel - biên niên s? c?a nh?ng nghiên c?u vô b?'" VN Express [Vietnam], September 24, 2003
• "Taking stock of the Ig Nobel Prizes," CNN, September 23, 2003
• "Book Honors Bizarre Research, Former VP, Metro, September 22, 2003
• "The Origin of Murphy's Law," Slashdot, September 22, 2003
• "Research can prove just about anything," Sydney Morning Herald, September 20, 2003
• "Book Examines Nose Picking and Buttered Toast," Yahoo News , September 18, 2003
• "The Ig Nobel Prizes: Highbrow Humour," ViewReviews, September 17, 2003
• "The Murphy behind Murphy’s Law," MSNBC, September 16, 2003
• "CONTEMPLATING FUZZ," Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, September 7, 2003
• "Texas really is flat," New Scientist, September 6, 2003
• "Dr Karl wins top dad prize," NineMSN, September 5, 2003
• "Hot ticket is to big science splash," Nashua Telegraph, September 3, 2003
• "Employing a Ruse," Guardian, September 1, 2003
• "So you think physics is funny?" Physics World, September 2003
• "Find out what your dog is really saying," The Olympian, August 30, 2003
• "Kansas is Flatter Than a Pancake," Car Talk [NPR], August 30, 2003
• "GAMBLING AND TOURISM: Kansas tourism director thinks flat is `awesome'," Kansas City Star, August 19, 2003
• "Death takes a holiday," U.S. News & World Report, August 18, 2003
• "Put this fact with the other stats," Topeka Capital-Journal, August 15, 2003
• "Interesting mix in Kansas pancake," Kansas City Star, August 14, 2003
• "The Ig Nobel Awards," Writer's Magazine, August 2003
• "A Nobel Endeavor," Publisher's Weekly, August 11, 2003
• "Opinion: Oh, perfidy! Thy name is Texas," The Chieftain, August 7, 2003
• "Kansans piqued over comparisons between their state and a pancake," Kansas City Star, August 6, 2003
• "EDITORIAL: Kansas -- Flat out great," Topeka Capital-Journal, August 5, 2003
• "EDITORIAL: Flat, and Just Plain Great," Los Angeles Times, August 2, 2003
• "Flatter-y will get you, uh, to Kansas," Kansas City Star, August 2, 2003
• "Yes, Kansas is flat, and that's its charm," Erie Times-News, August 2, 2003
• "Hold the syrup," Kansas City Star, July 31, 2003
• "Welcome, scientists; bring forks," Salina Journal, July 30, 2003
• "The Flat Landscape of Kansas" [audio], All Things Considered [NPR], July 29, 2003
• "Research shows Kansas 'flatter than pancake'," Morning Sun, July 28, 2003
• "Experts Say Kansas Is Flatter Than a Pancake," WIBW-Topeka, July 28, 2003
• "Holy hotcakes! Study finds Kansas flatter than pancake," Lawrence Journal-World, July 27, 2003
• "AIR's Taung Child Load Limerick Competition," About Archaeology, July 2003
• "Geographer shows 'Kansas flatter than a pancake'," CBC News, July 25, 2003
• "Kansas Pancake" [audio], As It Happens [CBC], July 24, 2003
• "Kansas is So Flat…," GIS Monitor, July 23, 2003
• "Kansas revealed," Guardian, July 23, 2003
• "Which is flatter - Kansas or a pancake?" Straits Times, July 23, 2003
• "Weird But True," New York Post, July 23, 2003
• "The Icing On The Pancake," National Journal Hotline, July 22, 2003
• "How flat is Kansas?" MSNBC, July 22, 2003
• ""Kansas proven flat as a pancake," Stuff [New Zealand], July 22, 2003
• "Study: Kansas is flatter than pancake," CNN, July 21, 2003
• "Cats talk in 'human' with new Meowlingual," Mainichi Shimbun, July 16, 2003
• "Study left with right result," Guardian, June 26, 2003
• "Science tackles the perfect cuppa," The Australian, June 26, 2003
• "Contenders for the big prize," Daily Telegraph, June 25, 2003
• "How to make a perfect cuppa," BBC News, June 25, 2003
• "The Science of Discovery," To the Best of Our Knowledge, June 22, 2003
• "Science in a party hat and tutu," Talking-Fish.com, June 2003
• "The World's Weirdest Sex Research," Playboy, June, 2003
• "Mobile Phone for Dogs Designed," Pravda, May 30, 2003
• "Power Tool Sex Mishaps Make You See Double," Times Higher Education Supplement, May 9, 2003
• "Science & Humor," University of Chicago Library, May 2003
• "THANKS to Annals of Improbable Research," New Scientist, April 26, 2003
• "At home with bowlingual," IDG News, April 25, 2003
• "B-List Genome Party Cashes in on ‘Deferred Fun’" GenomeWeb News , April 15, 2003
• [Hair Club:] "Let It Flow," Australian Biotechnology News, April 11, 2003
• "Japan's 'Dr Dolittle' mixes business with fun," Sify News, April 11, 2003
• "Takara reinvents playing around," Taipei Times, April 7, 2003
• "Ig Nobels prove to be more than a joke," Physics World, April 2003
• "Ostriches are aroused by humans," Daily Times, March 22, 2003
• "Nothing ignoble in winning one of these prizes," Daily Telegraph, March 16, 2003
• "Ig Nobel Quest?," Times Higher Education Supplement, March 14, 2003
• "86 YEARS OLD AND STILL CONTEMPLATING NAVELS...," Express, March 13, 2003
• "The IgNobel Prize," BBC H2G2, March 13, 2003
• "Paradoxical Experiments in Physics," University of St. Andrews, March, 2003
• "Confused Ostriches Fall in Love with Keepers," The Scotsman, March 9, 2003
• "Ostriches 'flirt with farmers''" BBC News, March 7, 2003
• "Birds of a feather don't flock together when ostriches fancy humans," The Times, March 8, 2003
• "Will my bum melt in this?" The Age, March 8, 2003
• "Answers to life, the universe - and ostriches," The Scotsman, March 8, 2003
• "Due to immense public demand..." NTK, March 7, 2003
• "UK labs go on the road," BBC News, March 7, 2003
• "A Little Titter Among the Test Tubes," Times Higher Education Supplement, March 7, 2003
• "In the News: Marc Abrahams," Times Higher Education Supplement, March 7, 2003
• "Science friction comic," Guardian, March 6, 2003
• "A tip of the hat to truly mad science," The Scotsman, March 6, 2003
• "The IgNobel Alternative," ABC, March 6, 2003
• "An Ig Nobel Laureate?" The Star, March 5, 2003
• "The Ig Nobel Prizes," Student Hype, March 4, 2003
• "Ignobel Prizes," Focus, March 3, 2003
• "BOOK REVIEW: The Best of Annals of Improbable Research," Midwest Book Review, February 2003
• "The main innovation of next week's NATIONAL SCIENCE WEEK," NTKnow, February 28, 2003
• "How do you celebrate scientific research that first makes you LAUGH, then makes you THINK?" Leicester Student News, February 27, 2003
• "Free Will Astrology," Village Voice, February 26, 2003
• "The Ig Nobel Prizes," Toronto Sun, February 23, 2003
• "How Many Docs Does It Take to Remove a Lightbulb?" Dominion Post, February 22, 2003
• "Science of Sunday Roast and Sex in Space," Times Higher Education Supplement, February 21, 2003
• "Succinct Scientist Competition promotes Usable Dissemination," Usability News, February 19, 2003
• "24/7 -- The Quest for Britain's Most Succinct Scientist," Times Higher Education Supplement, February 14, 2003
• "Ig Nobel Prizes," Internet Review Project, February 13, 2003
• "Research This," Ozone, Spring 2003
• "Ig Nobel Prizes," New Scientist, January 18, 2003
• "Trick Teas," The Australian, January 2, 2003
• "Does a wedding always imply..." Indie Bride, January 2003
• "The Ig Nobel Prizes Honor the Improbable," Colloquy, Winter 2003
• "How About That Ig Nobel Prize," Celebrator Beer News, December 2002 / January 2003

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Text - non-English

• " Ig-Nobelpreise 2003 oder: die Liga der toten Herrschaften," Indernet [Germany], December 2003
• "Dagboek Ig Nobel," Straatgras [The Netherlands], November 2003
• "Ig Nobel," Viedza-i-Zyccie [Poland], November 2003
• "Nobel et Ig Nobel," Lafactory [France], October 23, 2003
• "Anche i polli amano la bellezza," La Stampa [Italy], October 22, 2003
• "Los contra-Nobel: ciencia con chiste," El Pais [Spain], October 12, 2003
• "IG Nobel sariak," Diario Vasco [Spain], October 11, 2003
• "Prijs voor onderzoek necrofiele homo-eend," Leeuwarder Courant [The Netherlands], October 10, 2003
• "Prijs voor onderzoek homoseksuele necrofiele eend," ThinqTV [The Netherlands], October 9, 2003
• "Alles Nano," Die Zeit [Germany], October 9, 2003
• "Ig Nobel-Preise: Die etwas anderen Auszeichnungen," Science@ORF [Austria], October 8, 2003
• "Ig Nobel," Rokoerrep (sic) [Russian], October 7, 2003
• "PREMI IGNOBEL 2003," Tenneti [Italy], October, 2003
• "Ig Nobel," Bookzone [Taiwan], October 7, 2003
• "Antynoble przyznane!," Museum Humoru [Poland], October 7, 2003
• "Ig Nobel," Decopro [Russia], October 7, 2003
• "A félrelépett elmék Nobel-díja," Magyar Hirlap [Hungary], October 6, 2003
• "Späte Ehrung für den Entdecker von Murphys Gesetz „Unwürdige“ Nobelpreise in Cambridge vergeben," Der Tagesspiel [Germany], October 6, 2003
• "Alternative Nobel-priser uddelt," Jyllands-Posten [Denmark], October 6, 2003
• "Die toten Seelen von Uttar Pradesh," Science@home [Germany]. October 6, 2003
• "Raunir dau -- £a mannsins," Jonas, October 6, 2003
• "Enas 'zwntanos-nekros' lambanei anti-Nompel," ERA Hellenic Radio [Greece], October 5, 2003
• "En rezil 'Nobel'ler," Millyet [Turkey], October 5, 2003
• "Wie viel Kraft braucht man, um ein Schaf zu ziehen?," Stern [Germany], October 4, 2003
• "Ansichtssache: Schmäh-Preise verliehen," Der Standard [Austria], October 4, 2003
• "'Ig Nobel', c'è anche un italiano fra i "premiati," Libero [Italy], October 4, 2003
• "Murphys lov hedret," Forskning [Norway], October 4, 2003
• "Homoseksualna nekrofilija kod divljih pataka?," Gay.hr [Hungary], October 4, 2003
• "Remise des IgNobel pour des travaux atypiques," SwissInfo [Switzerland], October 4, 2003
• "Ig Nobel," Sciscape [Taiwan], October 4, 2003
• "Ig nobel: pourquoi les poulets préfèrent les blondes," Sciences et Avenir [France], October 3, 2003
• "Verdens morsomste forskning," Dagbladet [Norway], October 3, 2003
• "Ig Noble rozdane!," Fakty [Poland], October 3, 2003
• "Trao gi?i Ig Nobel 2003,"VietNamNet [Viet Nam], October 3, 2003
• "Die Ig Nobel-Preise 2003," Aon [Austria], October 3, 2003
• "Necrofilia homossexual de patos dá prêmio a holandês," UOL [Brazil], October 3, 2003
• "Ig Nobel," Forum [Ukraine], October 3, 2003
• "Assegnati ad Harvard i premi alle ricerche più pazze," La Repubblica [Italy], October 3, 2003
• "Prêmio celebra o lado absurdo das pesquisas," O Estado do S. Paulo [Brazil], October 3, 2003
• "La lunga notte degli Ig-Nobel," Gazzeta de Mezzogirono [Italy], October 3, 2003
• "L'IgNobel de la paix remis à un mort bien vivant," SFR [France], October 3, 2003
• "IgNobel para Estudo Sobre a Tosquia de Ovelhas," Publico [Portugal], October 3, 2003
• "Ig Nobel 2003," Lenta [Russia], October 3, 2003
• "Verslag over homoseksuele necrofiele eend bekroond," Planet [The Netherlands], October 2, 2003
• "Murphyjev zakon na Harvardu," Spektar [Hungary], September 28, 2003
• "IgNobel, um prêmio para os cientistas excênticos," O Estado do S. Paulo [Brazil], September 22, 2003
• "Gli struzzi si innamorano dei proprietari e gli allevamenti chiudono," Newton [Italy], March 19, 2003
• "« Bowlingual » Un gadget informatique interprète les « pensées » du chien," Journal de Saône et Loire [France], January 3, 2003
• "Sobran Ideas, Faltan Ayudas," CNR [Spain], January, 2003

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