January 2009
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List of Ig Nobel Prize winners
2007
Aviation: Patricia V. Agostino, Santiago A. Plano and Diego A. Golombek, for discovering that hamsters recover from jetlag more quickly when given Viagra.
Biology: Johanna E.M.H. van Bronswijk, for taking a census of all the mites and other life forms that live in people’s beds.
Chemistry: Mayu Yamamoto for extracting vanilla flavour from cow dung.
Economics: Kuo Cheng Hsieh, for...
“He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster....”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Robert McNamara's 11 Lessons of War
#1: EMPATHIZE WITH YOUR ENEMY. “Kennedy was trying to keep us out of war. I was trying to help him keep us out of war. And General Curtis LeMay, whom I served under as a matter of fact in World War II, was saying ‘Let’s go in, let’s totally destroy Cuba.’”
LESSON #2: RATIONALITY WILL NOT SAVE US. “I want to say, and this is very important: at the end we...
Rules of the Air
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In light of the spectacular crash into the Hudson river, The Rules of the Air…
1. Every takeoff is optional. Every landing is mandatory.
2. Flying isn’t dangerous. Crashing is whats dangerous.
3. The only time you have too much fuel is when you’re on fire.
6. The propeller is just a big fan...
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