Hehe, the peace prize this year went to Daisuke Inoue of Hyogo, Japan, for inventing karaoke, "thereby providing an entirely new way for people to learn to tolerate each other". ...
Ok, from the BBC: Researchers who patented a comb-over hairstyle in 1975 were top prize winners in the engineering section of this year's Ig Nobel awards.
Father and son team Frank and Donald Smith developed a method to cover partial baldness using only the individual's own hair.
Award organisers, the Annals of Improbable Research publishers, say the Igs are meant to celebrate the unusual.
They also aim to encourage interest in science, medicine, and technology.
This year's prizes were awarded at a sell-out gala ceremony at Harvard University in Massachusetts and the prizes were handed to the winners by genuine Nobel Laureates.
Hehe, the peace prize this year went to Daisuke Inoue of Hyogo, Japan, for inventing karaoke, "thereby providing an entirely new way for people to learn to tolerate each other". ...
Ok, from the BBC: Researchers who patented a comb-over hairstyle in 1975 were top prize winners in the engineering section of this year's Ig Nobel awards.
Father and son team Frank and Donald Smith developed a method to cover partial baldness using only the individual's own hair.
Award organisers, the Annals of Improbable Research publishers, say the Igs are meant to celebrate the unusual.
They also aim to encourage interest in science, medicine, and technology.
This year's prizes were awarded at a sell-out gala ceremony at Harvard University in Massachusetts and the prizes were handed to the winners by genuine Nobel Laureates.
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