I noticed that this year's igNobel Prize in Medicine went to one "James Gundlach" for a study examining the effects of country music on suicide. Does this sound suspiciously familiar to anyone else? (The igNobel Prizes are awarded each year at Harvard by the Annals of Improbable Research, for research that "cannot, or should not, be reproduced.") David -- "Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning." Frederick Douglass |
David, We have a number of scholarlly folks on this list. Most are too humble to talk about it! All those years of graduate school and bad coffee gives one an appriciation for the good stuff we drink now. Les David Lewis wrote: I noticed that this year's igNobel Prize in Medicine went to one "James Gundlach" for a study examining the effects of country music on suicide. Does this sound suspiciously familiar to anyone else? (The igNobel Prizes are awarded each year at Harvard by the Annals of Improbable Research, for research that "cannot, or should not, be reproduced.") David -- "Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning." Frederick Douglass |
He headed to Boston this week. Isn't Harvard in Boston. RK |
In Cambridge, across the river.
--MikeW
On Sat, 2 Oct 2004 15:51:52 -0400, R.N.Kyle wrote:
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"... -where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise!"
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David,
FWIW, the Ig Nobel Prizes are for research that first makes one
laugh but then think. They are run by the same person who does the
Annals of Improbable Research but there is a different focus - although
humor is clearly an important part of it. I was limited to 60 seconds
for the acceptance speech, practiced one that I completed in 52
seconds. If a speech goes too long a nine-year-old girl comes out on
stage repeating "Please stop. I'm bored." I think I may get a
recording of her doing it and use it at the next professional meetings
session I chair. And, yes they are a lot of fun but they have reached
the point that universities now lobby for their faculty to win one.
Jim Gundlach
On Oct 1, 2004, at 8:35 PM, David Lewis wrote:
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Pecan Jim Gundlach wrote: <Snip> Is that the same as the Journal of Irreproducible Results? I've been thinking on writing an article for over 20 yrs, on the Introduction of Pleasure and Pain to silicone based neural fuzzy control systems to control execution rates. Hmmm.... but there is a different focus - although humor is clearly an important part of it. I was limited to 60 seconds for the acceptance speech, practiced one that I completed in 52 seconds. If a speech goes too long a nine-year-old girl comes out on stage repeating "Please stop. I'm bored." I think I may get a recording of her doing it and use it at the next professional meetings session I chair. And, yes they are a lot of fun but they have reached the point that universities now lobby for their faculty to win one. <Snip> -- Ben Treichel Program Manager S.E Michigan SwRI 248-232-7365 (o) 248-935-6845 (m) |
On Oct 4, 2004, at 12:03 PM, Ben Treichel wrote:
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Yes, you should go ahead and send it in.
Jim |
It used to be the JIR, but they split with their publisher or something a decade or so back, and the publisher kept the name. Thus the "new" name. =S On Mon, 4 Oct 2004 12:23:11 -0500, Pecan Jim Gundlach wrote: <Snip> |
Spencer Thomas wrote: Kewl (tryin to 'modernize" my langauage skills) <Snip> |