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For those of you who don't know, the Ig Nobel prizes are sort of a spoof on the Nobel Prizes. Every year, the day before Nobel Prize winners start being announced, the Institute of Improbably Research awards prizes to scientists, etc., whose achievements are chuckle-worthy but still an achievement.
 
Previous prizes were awarded to the inventors of a smoke detector the releases the smell of wasabi to alert people, a study showing that cows with names give more milk than those who are nameless, and a study proving that listening to elevator Muzak can help prevent the common cold.
 
For those interested in actual scientific implications of this year's winners, interesting summaries can be found here:
 
Here are this year's winners: https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/09/the-serious-science-of-the-ig-nobel-prizes-will-make-you-laugh-then-think/
 
Anthropology
Tomas Persson, Gabriela-Alina Sauciuc, and Elaine Madsen, for collecting evidence, in a zoo, that chimpanzees imitate humans about as often, and about as well, as humans imitate chimpanzees.
 
Biology
Paul Becher, Sebastien Lebreton, Erika Wallin, Erik Hedenstrom, Felipe Borrero-Echeverry, Marie Bengtsson, Volker Jorger, and Peter Witzgall, for demonstrating that wine experts can reliably identify, by smell, the presence of a single fly in a glass of wine.
 
Chemistry
Paula Romao, Adilia Alarcao, and the late Cesar Viana, for measuring the degree to which human saliva is a good cleaning agent for dirty surfaces.
 
Medical education
Akira Horiuchi, for the medical report, "Colonoscopy in the Sitting Position: Lessons Learned from Self-Colonoscopy."
 
Literature
Thea Blackler, Rafael Gomez, Vesna Popovic, and M. Helen Thompson, for documenting that most people who use complicated products do not read the instruction manual.
 
Nutrition
James Cole, for calculating that the caloric intake from a human-cannibalism diet is significantly lower than the caloric intake from most other traditional meat diets.
 
Peace
Francisco Alonso, Cristina Esteban, Andrea Serge, Maria-Luisa Ballestar, Jaime Sanmartin, Constanza Calatayud, and Beatriz Alamar, for measuring the frequency, motivation, and effects of shouting and cursing while driving an automobile.
 
Reproductive medicine
John Barry, Bruce Blank, and Michel Boileau, for using postage stamps to test whether the male sexual organ is functioning properly—as described in their study, "Nocturnal Penile Tumescence Monitoring with Stamps."
 
Economics
Lindie Hanyu Liang, Douglas Brown, Huiwen Lian, Samuel Hanig, D. Lance Ferris, and Lisa Keeping, for investigating whether it is effective for employees to use Voodoo dolls to retaliate against abusive bosses.

I've looked forward to these every year for a long time. They are deliciously silly, but not entirely useless.
 
EDIT
 
For a list of current and previous winners, go to https://www.improbable.com/ig/winners/#ig2018

That 2nd kid was probably starved for attention.
 
I would have told him to go hide in the bathroom and wait for his mom to come looking for him. Call it a game of hide 'n' seek.

(Not trying to sound harsh, here....)
 
You also don't leave your apartment. Where you carry your wallet is kind of academic since you're not really at risk for pickpocketing, etc.,

For those of you who don't know, the Ig Nobel prizes are sort of a spoof on the Nobel Prizes. Every year, the day before Nobel Prize winners start being announced, the Institute of Improbably Research awards prizes to scientists, etc., whose achievements are chuckle-worthy but still an achievement.
 
Previous prizes were awarded to the inventors of a smoke detector the releases the smell of wasabi to alert people, a study showing that cows with names give more milk than those who are nameless, and a study proving that listening to elevator Muzak can help prevent the common cold.
 
For those interested in actual scientific implications of this year's winners, interesting summaries can be found here:
 
Here are this year's winners: https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/09/the-serious-science-of-the-ig-nobel-prizes-will-make-you-laugh-then-think/
 
Anthropology
Tomas Persson, Gabriela-Alina Sauciuc, and Elaine Madsen, for collecting evidence, in a zoo, that chimpanzees imitate humans about as often, and about as well, as humans imitate chimpanzees.
 
Biology
Paul Becher, Sebastien Lebreton, Erika Wallin, Erik Hedenstrom, Felipe Borrero-Echeverry, Marie Bengtsson, Volker Jorger, and Peter Witzgall, for demonstrating that wine experts can reliably identify, by smell, the presence of a single fly in a glass of wine.
 
Chemistry
Paula Romao, Adilia Alarcao, and the late Cesar Viana, for measuring the degree to which human saliva is a good cleaning agent for dirty surfaces.
 
Medical education
Akira Horiuchi, for the medical report, "Colonoscopy in the Sitting Position: Lessons Learned from Self-Colonoscopy."
 
Literature
Thea Blackler, Rafael Gomez, Vesna Popovic, and M. Helen Thompson, for documenting that most people who use complicated products do not read the instruction manual.
 
Nutrition
James Cole, for calculating that the caloric intake from a human-cannibalism diet is significantly lower than the caloric intake from most other traditional meat diets.
 
Peace
Francisco Alonso, Cristina Esteban, Andrea Serge, Maria-Luisa Ballestar, Jaime Sanmartin, Constanza Calatayud, and Beatriz Alamar, for measuring the frequency, motivation, and effects of shouting and cursing while driving an automobile.
 
Reproductive medicine
John Barry, Bruce Blank, and Michel Boileau, for using postage stamps to test whether the male sexual organ is functioning properly—as described in their study, "Nocturnal Penile Tumescence Monitoring with Stamps."
 
Economics
Lindie Hanyu Liang, Douglas Brown, Huiwen Lian, Samuel Hanig, D. Lance Ferris, and Lisa Keeping, for investigating whether it is effective for employees to use Voodoo dolls to retaliate against abusive bosses.

Cards are in the smartphone (apple pay and such) for most people....you don't need the actual cards anymore, really, since you can just tap your phone to the cc reader. ID is rarely needed and can slip in the phone case easily enough. Actual cash is becoming antiquated, it seems, but there's always a money clip (I gave one as a gift last year, actually), if you need one.

I never wanted to believe that my brother was stealing signs from his job as a road worker.
 
But when I got home, all the signs were there.
 
--30--

I never wanted to believe that my brother was stealing signs from his job as a road worker.
 
But when I got home, all the signs were there.
 
--30--

Back in the day I was asked WHY I escorted...and if someone wanted to preach at me for an hour, I'd sit through it if their money was good.
 
I didn't need to be -- or want to be -- "saved" from hustling, though. The money was too good, and I had too much fun doing it.

I never wanted to believe that my brother was stealing signs from his job as a road worker.
 
But when I got home, all the signs were there.
 
--30--

I think it might have something to do with the fact that it was ILLEGAL for gay men to get married until recently. They necessarily had to wait until later in life because it was not an option when they were young (except for the current crop of twinks).

All things wise and wonderful, the church bus hit them all....

Never heard of them...apparently I didn't miss much.

That phrase is about masturbation, right?

I have to concur with this.
 
If you're talking about a diagnosis, then the word "addiction" means something specific and has specific connotations.
 
Just like if you're talking about the legal realm, the word "collusion" has a specific definition and specific connotations.
 
Another example: In the tax realm, "income" means something very specific, and is different from the every-day use of the word.
 
In all of those examples, the colloquial use of the words tends to be much broader than the definition in the specialized areas. If you're going to talk about one of those those areas (such as "addiction" in a diagnostic/medical/psychological context), then it's nothing but simple sophistry and sheer sloppiness to use a broader definition that doesn't necessarily apply.

I remember what my great grandfather said just before he kicked the bucket.
 
He said, "Look how far I can kick this bucket."
 
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