Ig Nobel Prize winners include research into butt breathing, coin flips
Sept. 13 (UPI) --The Journal of Improbable Research announced this year's Ig Nobel Prize winners, including a team who ...
Blue Zones offered hope as real-life fountains of youth – new research says they can be explained by comically flawed data
Last month, Dr Saul Newman of the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing was awarded the Ig Nobel Prize for his work debunking Blue Zones. Newman’s investigation into serious flaws in the data about ...
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Narcissist eyebrow study, alligator breathing helium among this year's Ig Nobel prize winners
Narcissist eyebrows, insect researchers with a fear of spiders and an alligator inhaling helium were among the topics of scientific studies honoured with awards in this year's Ig Nobel Prizes on ...
The Most Controversial Nobel Prize in Recent Memory
This year’s economics award reinforces a comforting but false story about democracy.
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Things to know about the Nobel Prizes ahead of 2023 awards
Fall has arrived in Scandinavia, which means Nobel Prize season is here. The start of October is when the Nobel committees get together in Stockholm and Oslo to announce the winners of the yearly ...
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Why Does Anyone Care About the Nobel Prize?
The Nobel is one of the greatest branding exercises in history. Establishing a prize is easy. The hard part is getting anyone to care. Alfred Nobel, a businessman who made his fortune selling ...
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3 Economists Get Nobel Prize For Study On Institutions And Prosperity
US-based academics Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson won the 2024 Nobel economics prize "for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity", the Royal Swedish Academy ...
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Nobel economics prize is awarded for research into why countries succeed or fail
The Nobel memorial prize in economics was awarded Monday to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson for research into reasons why some countries succeed and others fail. The three ...
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The World Needs A Nobel Prize In Public Health
The Nobel Prize is one of the most prestigious awards in the world. In his will, Alfred Nobel, a 19th-century Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor and industrialist, directed that his fortune be ...
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The Nobel Prize In Economics Is An Insiders’ Club Whose Time Has Passed
As the world gears up for Monday’s announcement of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics, it’s worth reflecting on whether the prize still carries the same value it once did. While the Nobel is ...
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Blue Zones offered hope as real-life fountains of youth – new research says they can be explained by comically flawed data
Your support makes all the difference. Last month, Dr Saul Newman of the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing was awarded the Ig Nobel Prize for his work debunking Blue Zones. Newman’s ...
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Nobel economics prize awarded for research into why countries succeed or fail
The Nobel memorial prize in economics was awarded Monday to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson for research into differences in prosperity between nations and why some countries ...