Press Clips - 2004

What the press has to say about us

NOTE: Items listed in red letters are especially entertaining or enlightening.

• "Hair-Raising Scientists," Washington Post, December 19, 2004
• "Ruotsalaisten sukellusvenemysteeri ratkaistu," Tiedetoimittaja [Finland], December 2004
• "The Naked Facts," Red Nova News, December 14, 2004
• "The Ig Nobel Prizes," [China][with unusual audio], December 13 [after a delay], 2004
• "IgNobel Prizes 2: Why chickens prefer beautiful humans," New Scientist, December 11, 2004
• "Link between suicide and country music, WSU Ig Nobel Prize laureate says," South End, December 3, 2004
• "The Ig Nobels," GetSET [Univ of Tasmania], November 2004
• "Ig Nobel Prizes," China Youth Daily [China], November 29, 2004
• "Jacques Benveniste, British Medical Journal, November 27, 2004
• "Karaoke machine inventor not looking back," Taipei Times, November 22, 2004
• "Inventor of karaoke plots another revolution," Channel News Asia, November 21, 2004
• "Daisuke Inoue: Karaoke Machine," Anecdotage, November 2004
• "Shoes and Schizophrenia," New York Times, November 21, 2004
• "Bizarre World of Improbable Research," The Star, November 18, 2004
• "Comb overs win Nobel award," Law in a Box, November 2004
• "Cover Up," AARP Bulletin, November 2004
• "Ig Nobels Celebrate Weird Science," China Daily, November 17, 2004
• "Book Examines Political Parties in Kansas," Albuquerque Journal, November 12, 2004
• "Troy 'conehead' links country music, suicide in Ig Noble study," Troy Eccentric, November 11, 2004
• "Eureka!" Independent, November 10, 2004
• "Rewarding the brilliantly odd," Earthlink Newsletter, November 8, 2004
• "Peer Review," Guardian, November 4, 2004
• Television report about the Ig, [20 minutes long] [China], China Central Television, October 29, 2004
• "New Perspectives on Scientific Research: Nobel and IgNobel Prize Winners Announced," Case Research Newsletter, Sept-Oct 2004
• "This just in...," eTruth, October 26, 2004
• "A Noble Gesture," Austin American-Statesman, October 25, 2004
• "The 2004 Ig Nobel Prizes," Hamshari [in Arabic], October 2004
• "Ig Nobel premia trabalho sobre comida que cai no chão," Nutritotal [Brazil], October 22, 2004
• "Country's killer sound," Auburn Plainsman, October 21, 2004
• "Jacques Benveniste," Guardian, October 21, 2004
• "Il riportino vale bene un Ig-Nobel," La Stampa [Italy], October 20, 2004
• "IG NOBEL: Nagrada za besmislena znanstvena dostignuc´a," Klik [Hungary], October 18, 2004
• "Did you hear?," Financial Mail, October 15, 2004
• "The Anal of Modern Science," Authors' Den, October 15, 2004
• "The Ig Nobel Awards," Journal Times, October 15, 2004
• "American Nudist Research Library wins the Ig Nobel Prize," ClothesFree TV [video], October 14, 2004
• "Ig Nobel Prizes Awarded," UHI Compass, October 2004
• "More evidence of why academic research is important," Daily Journal, October 13, 2004
• "The 2004 Ig Nobel prizes," The Magazine [Montreal], October 13, 2004
• "Ig Nobel Fun for Combover Heir," Seattle Times, October 12, 2009
• "What put this year's Ig Nobels on my radar," eWeek, October 11, 2004
• "Ig Nobel Prizes," Shargh [Iran], October 2004
• "... a couple of Swedish scientists...," The Local [Sweden], October 11, 2004
• "I'll just fill up my bottle at the water fountain, thank you," iHigh, October 11, 2004
• "The Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony" [1,2,3,4], Russkii Newsweek [Russia], October 10, 2004
• "Mysterious 'submarine' sound turns out to be flatulent herrings," San Francisco Chronicle, October 9, 2004
• "Can Country Music Drive You to Suicide?" British Medical Journal, October 9, 2004
• "Bar¦s¸ ödülünün esas sahibi karaoke makinesinin mucidi," Hurriyetim [Turkey], October 9, 2004
• "Dangerous water, deadly music and invisible gorillas win Ig Nobel prizes," New Scientist, October 9, 2004
• "NBC picks up 5-second rule," Daytona Beach News-Journal, October 8, 2004
• "Alternativt nobelpris till osynliga gorillor," Computer Sweden [Sweden], October 8, 2004
• "The 2004 Ig Nobel Prizes," Bandao News [Taiwan], October 8, 2004
• "Combover engineers win Ig Prize," Johns Hopkins News-Letter, October 8, 2004
• "Singing along with the Ig Nobels," Harvard Gazette, October 7, 2004
• "Science tales from the fringe," Sarasota Herald Tribune, October 7, 2004
• "Wenn der Hering bläht," Die Zeit [Germany], October 7, 2004
• "Inventor of the combover wins legendary Ig Nobel prize," Felix, October 7, 2004
• "Weekly World News Quiz, BBC, October 7, 2004
• "Nothing fishy about sweet smell of Nobel success," C/NET News, October 6, 2004
• "Cyberchondria and other ignoble advances," Marshfield Mail, October 6, 2004
• "Nudist Library Brings Home Prize," Cyber-Bulletin, October 6, 2004
• "But what about Karaoke?" Post and Courier, October 6, 2004
• "Maquila India llamadas al cielo," Reforma [Mexico], October 6, 2004
• "Ironic honors intended to celebrate the unusual," Detroit Free Press, October 6, 2004
• 'Jacques Benveniste," Mingxin [Taiwan], October 6, 2004
• "You can trust in human fallibility," Sentinel, October 6, 2004
• "IgNobel Man Cometh," Times of India, October 6, 2004
• "Harvard ceremony graced by hula-hooping laureates," Nature, October 6, 2004
• "EDITORIAL:Inoue's Ig Nobel Prize," Asahi Shimbun [Japan], October 5, 2004
• "American Nudist Research Library wins Ig Nobel Prize," Nudes in the News, October 5, 2005
• "Assegnati gli IG Nobel 2004," Giornale Tecnological [Italy], October 5, 2004
• "Premiile Nobel... de-a-ndoaselea," Adevarul [Romania], October 5, 2004
• "Les Nobel pour rire 2004," Agence Science-Presse [Canada], October 5, 2004
• "Ig-Nobelprisene 2004," Forskning [Norway], October 5, 2005
• "Countrymusikk øker selvmordsfaren," NRK [Norway], October 5, 2004
• "Nobels Oblige," Guardian, October 4, 2004
• "Educational and Funny Research Honored," Washington Post, October 4, 2004
• "Peraih Hadiah Ig Nobel 2004," Republika [Indonesia], October 4, 2004
• "Patented comb-over finally has brush with fame," Orlando Sentinel, October 4, 2004
• "The Ig Nobel Prizes," Countdown with Keith Olbermann [MSNBC], October 4, 2004
• "Inventor del karaoke ganó el Premio Antinobel de la Paz ," Las Últimas Noticias [Chile], October 4, 2004
• "Ig-Nobel-Preise für furzende Heringe und mörderische Country-Musik," Hamburger Abendblatt [Germany], October 4, 2004
• "Les autres Nobel," Le Temps [Switzerland], October 4, 2004
• "Bles haarstyl se uitvinders kry Ig Nobel-prys," Beeld [South Africa], October 4, 2004
• "The Ig Nobel Prizes," Membrana [Russia], October 4, 2004
• "Rudy's old comb-over, hula hoops and karaoke," Newsday, October 4, 2004
• "Von tödlicher Country-Musik und outgesourceten Messen," Frankfurter Allgemaine Zeitung [Germany], October 4, 2004
• "Premios Ig-NOBEL 2004," Paz Digital [Spain], October 4, 2004
• "De wetenschap voor de lachspiegel," De Tijd [Belgium], October 4, 2004
• "Entregan ‘parodias’ de los premios Nobel," La Prensa [Spain], October 4, 22004
• "2004 legabszurdabb tudományos kutatásai," Magyar Hirlap [Hungary], October 4, 2004
• "¿LIBROS PARA UNA SEMANA?" El Mundo [Spain], October 4, 2004
• "De l’effet insoupçonné de la country music et de l’eau 'pure'," Nouvel Observateur [France], October 4, 2004
• "Five seconds of fame for Ig Nobel winner," USA Today, October 3, 2003
• "Premiaron en Harvard a los más insólitos trabajos científicos," Clarin [Argentina], October 3, 2004
• "Nh?ng ch? nhân gi?i Ig Nobel 2004," Can Tho [Vietnam], October 3, 2004
• "Karaoke cited for promoting tolerance," Straits Times, October 2, 3004
• "Singing the praises of karaoke's creator," Boston Globe, October 2, 2004
• "Creator wins Ig Nobel for karaoke's 'new way to tolerate'," Japan Times, October 2, 2004
• "Forskare med humor fick Ig-Nobelpriser," Falu Kuriren [Sweden], October 3, 2004
• "Honors for Nude Lit, Fish Farts," Wired News, October 2, 2004
• "Ubåtslarmen var pruttande fiskar," Aftonbladet [Sweden], October 2, 2004
• "Fisiga pristagare vid humoristisk Nobelgala," TV4 [Sweden], October 2, 2004
• "Premian al que halló un vínculo entre el country y el suicidio," La Voz de Galicia [Spain], October 2, 2004
• "Männer in Gorilla-Kostümen bleiben unsichtbar," Spiegel [Germany], October 2, 2004
• "Baldness-beating hairstyle wins science award," MSNBC, October 2, 2004
• "Entregan premios a los estudios científicos más curiosos de 2004," Le Tercera [Spain], October 2, 2004
• "Farting Fishes Winds Award," Glasgow Daily Record, October 2, 2004
• "University of Ottawa scientist wins award for study of hula hooping" and "Researchers take a strand -- and win an offbeat prize for helping to cover up hair loss," National Post, October 2, 2004
• "Ceny Ig Nobel 2004," Osel [Czech Republic], October 2, 2004
• "Ubåter var fisende sild," Aftenposten [Norway], October 2, 2004
• "Savantii trasniti, rasplatiti cu premiile Ig Nobel," Evenimentul Zilei [Romania], October 2, 2004
• "Karaoke's Creator Wins Ig Nobel Prize" [AUDIO], All Things Considered, NPR, October 1, 2004
• "Anunciados os vencedores do Ig Nobel 2004" and "Da língua dos peixes ao bambolê, o Prêmio Ig Nobel," O Estado de Sao Paulo [Brazil], October 1, 2004
• "Ig-Nobelprijs vor Countrymuziek en zelfmoord," and "Troost voor kalende mannen," NRC Handelsblad [The Netherlands], October 1, 2004
• "'Combover' engineers among this year's winners of the Ig Nobel," Asssociated Press, October 1, 2004
• "Ichthyology Meets Ignominy at Awards Ceremony for the Ig Nobel Prizes," Chronicle of Higher Education, October 1, 2004
• "Ig Nobel Awards Take Sanders," Harvard Crimson, October 1, 2004
• "How 'Raspberries' May Help Fish Communicate," The Scotsman, October 1, 2004
• "2004: van haringscheet tot nudistenbieb," Noorderlicht [The Netherlands], October 1, 2004
• "Laughter in the lab" and "Flatulant fish net Ig Nobel award," Nature, October 1, 2004
• "Farting Herring, Suicides Garner Ig Nobels," Discovery News, October 1, 2004
• Slashdot discussion of this year's Ig Nobel Prizes, Slashdot, October 1, 2004
• "Ig Nobel Prizes," Lenta [Russia], October 1, 2004
• "Anale akoestiek," Bionieuws [The Netherlands], October 1, 2004
• "Weird and wonderful science honoured," TVNZ, October 1,2004
• "The Ig Nobel Prizes," SMI [Russia], October 1, 2004
• "Entregan los Premios anti-Nobel en EE.UU.," Clarin [Argentina], October 1, 2004
• "And the Ig Nobel goes to . . . the Hula-Hoop prof," Globe and Mail, October 1, 2004
• "Ig Nobel Prize awarded for fish flatulence research," Fish Update, October 1, 2004
• "Combover man honoured," DeHavilland, October 1, 2004
• "Country music-suicide link tops IgNobel awards," Reuters, October 1, 2004
• "Canadians among 'Ig Nobel' winners," CBC News, October 1, 2004
• "Advances in weird science," Los Angeles Times, October 1, 2004
• "Coca-Cola's water wins Ig Nobel prize," Daily Telegraph, October 1, 2004
• "De Coca-Cola ao bambolê, o Ig Nobel," Jornal da Ciencia [Brazil], October 1, 2004
• "Ig Nobel Winner Confirms Five-Second Rule," The Tech [MIT], October 1, 2004
• "Creator of karaoke wins Ig Nobel 'tolerance' prize," Japan Today, October 1, 2004
• "Thoughtful Achievement," Hartford Courant, October 1, 2004
• "Ig Nobel honors 'combover' engineers, [with a vote]" CNN, October 1, 2004
• "Desto höher die Selbstmordrate," N-TV [Germany], October 1, 2004
• "Invisible gorilla steals Ig Nobel prize," New Scientist, October 1, 2004
• "Award-winning Coke - an ignoble victory," Just Drinks, October 1, 2004
• "Furzende Heringe und tödliche Country-Musik," Stern [Germany], October 1, 2004
• "Science prize celebrates fish flatulence, hula hoops," CNET News, October 1, 2004
• "Estudo Sobre Música 'Country' e Suicídio Vence IgNobel da Medicina," Publico [Portugal], October 1, 2004
• "The sex life of a porcupine," Guardian, October 1, 2004
• "Ig Nobel Interview," [AUDIO] The World , October 1, 2004
• "Ig Nobel awards pay tribute to world's oddballs ," Guardian, October 1, 2004
• "Water fiasco puts Coca-Cola among the drips of science," The Times [London], October 1, 2004
• "Come comunicano le aringhe? Assegnati gli IG Nobel 2004," Girodovite [Italy], October 1, 2004
• "Scientific Jokes That Have a Serious Purpose," Financial Times, October 1, 2004
• "Ig Nobel 2004," CKOI-FM [France], October 1, 2004
• "Vertice europeo della scienza alla radio … in salsa di IG Nobel," [AUDIO], Il Volo della Oche, Radio 24 [Italy], October 1, 2004
• "Science prize celebrates fish flatulence, hula hoops," CNET News, October 1, 2004
• "The Ig Nobel Prizes Are Awarded," E1 [Russia, October 1, 2004
• "Strange but true: country music saps will to live," Independent, October 1, 2004
• "2004 Ig Nobel Prizes Announced," Science Now, October 1, 2004
• "'Funny science' gets its reward," BBC, October 1, 2004
• "Ig Nobel 2004," Radioactif [France], October 1, 2004
• "Se entregan los premios Ig Nobel 2004 que galardonan lo más disparatado de ciencia," EITB [Spain], October 1, 2004
• "Ig Nobel awards honor quirky research," Washington Times, October 1, 2004
• "The Ig Nobel Prizes Are Awarded," Izvestia [Russia], October 1, 2004
• "Premian a descubridores vínculo entre música country y suicidio," El Universo, September 30, 2004
• "Wissenschafter brauchen Humor/ Der Meister des Bizarren," Die Furche [Austria], September 30, 2004
• "Mothers of Invention," ABC News, September 29, 2004
• "The Morphology of Steve," New Scientist, September 25, 2004
• "Deciding what's funny can be an exact science," Boston Globe, September 24, 2004
• "Fools for Science Take Stage Again," Harvard Gazette, September 24, 2004
• "Volontari dell'astronomia in festa," [AUDIO], Il Volo della Oche, Radio 24 [Italy], October 1, 2004
• "Skurrile Nobelpreise für unsinnige Forschungsarbeiten, Die Welt [Germany], September 23, 2004
• "The Silly Science Season, MSNBC.com, September 22, 2004
• "On the lighter side of science," Nashua Telegraph, September 15, 2004
• "Major Breakthrough in Steve Research," Chronicle of Higher Education, September 9, 2004
• "To get our minds off possible impending doom," Post & Courier, September 2, 2004
• "Absurdeste 'Nobelpreise' verliehen," Kurier [Austria], September 2, 2004
• "'Nobelpreise' für absurde Studien," Tirol@ORF.at [Austria], August 31, 2004
• "Erst lachen -- dann nachdenken," Alpbach Forum News, August 29, 2004
• ""Nobelpreis" für Taubenabwehr," Der Standard [Austria], August 29, 2004
• "Prize for those hairy questions," The Australian, August 25, 2004
• "Project Steve: The Evolutionary Advantage of Being 'Steve,'" What's New, August 20, 2004
• "Batty Boffin," The Age, August 16, 2004
• "Cairns researcher nominated for Ig Nobel Prize," James Cook University, August 12, 2004
• "The Weird World of Highly Improbable Research," Curtin University, August 2004
• "Hey Prestik, here's one for the Ig Nobel Prize," The Star, June 30, 2004
• "The meaning of life, and why coconuts fall," The Star, June 21, 2004
• "Archeopathologie," NRC Handelsblad [The Netherlands], June 19/20, 2004
• "Polskie Antynoble," TVP [Poland], June 10, 2004
• "Sie³ wyda?o: Marc Abrahams, "AntyNoble". Przek?ad Rafa? S´mietana. Wyd. Znak, Kraków 2004," Gazeta [Poland], June 4, 2004
• "Antynoble Marca Abrahamsa," Gazeta [Poland], May 27, 2004
• "Making us laugh... all for science," Irish Independent, May 12, 2004
• "Japan has more than its fair share of winners," Asia-Pacific Perspectives, May 2004
• "‘Improbable’ tale a hit," Nashua Telegraph, May 5, 2004
• "Ig Nobel Prize: Awards for the weird and wacky," Arizona Republic, April 20, 2004
• "The Ig Nobel Prizes: The Annals of Improbable Research," New England Journal of Medicine, April 8, 2004
• "'Dead man' files papers to contest elections," WebIndia123, April 7, 2004
• "Dead Man to Contest Elections From Azamgarh" [with video],Snoop Video News, April 6, 2004
• "Fending off annoying birds," Daily Yomiuri, April 3, 2004
• "Year of the Necrophiliac Gay Duck Comes to a Close," Texas Triangle, March 25, 2004
• Diary of the Ig Nobel Tour, NRC Handlesblad [Holland], March 21, 2004
• "Een bekend gevoel voor gescheiden ouders," Vaderschap [Holland], March 20, 2004
• "Ig Nobels Tour 2004: It's Quackers," Times Higher Education Supplement, March 19, 2004
• "THE IG NOBEL AWARDS: the weird world of highly unusual research," Irish Times, March 15, 2004
• "Daftness rewarded during National Science Week," The Register, March 12, 2004
• "The Science That Makes You Laugh, Then Makes You Think," The Times [London], March 9, 2004
• "Trinkaus: An Informal Look," Fortune, March 8, 2004
• "Ig Nobel Prizes unbelievable, improbable, oddly inspirational," Northwest Herald, March 7, 2004
• "The 2004 Ig Nobel Tour of the UK and Ireland," NTKnow, March 5, 2004
• "Ignobel Prizes," What's Happening (University of Leeds), March 5, 2004
• "Nails and Hooves: Designed for Wear and Tears," The Scientist, March 1, 2004
• "That's scientific entertainment," Popular Science, March 2004
• "Lushest Locks in the Lab," Times Higher Education Supplement, February 28, 2004
• "Ig Nobel prizes put strange science in the spotlight," Bellingham Herald, February 16, 2004
• "Zany brains: Scientists search for yuks at national meeting," St. Louis Post-Dispatch, February 15, 2003
• "Everything I Know I Learned from Magazines," Always On, February 13, 2004
• "Roll up for an improbable travelling show," Irish Times, February 12, 2004
• "Coming to Dublin for the first time," BBC, February 12, 2004
• "Ig Nobel Prize Recipients Induce Humor, Thought with Triumphs," California Tech, February 2, 2003
• " Ig Nobel Prizes," New York Stringer, January 31, 2004
• "Not All Efforts Are Nobel," Stanford Magazine, January-February 2004
• "Keeping Science Alive," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, January 2004
• "Prize Fight," North Bay Bohemian, January 29, 2004
• "You Can Say That Again!: Just for the fun of it," Nikkei Weekly, January 19, 2004
• "Japan Does Well in the Ig Nobel Prizes," AERA magazine [Japan], January 12, 2004
• "See Spot Run. Hear Spot Talk?" Dallas Morning News, January 9, 2004
• " Karaoke is as bad for you as it is for your audience," Herald Sun, January 4, 2004

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