The sociology of Canadian donut shops plays out afresh, as described in a New York Post report headlined “Lady poops on restaurant floor, flings it at cashier.” That report includes action video. The 1999 Ig Nobel Prize for sociology was awarded to Steve Penfold, of York University in Toronto, for doing his PhD thesis on the sociology of Canadian donut […]
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A Canadian Appreciation of the Canadian Ig Nobel Prize winners
Andrew Kidd, writing in The Varsity, give a happy nod to the many Canadian Ig Nobel Prize winners. His report begins: Ig Nobels recognize hilarity in science Seventeen Canadians have earned this ironic accolade With more than seven million scientists exploring the world around us, it seems inevitable that some would stray from important scientific […]
That moment when a Canadian TV News anchor discovered the Ig Nobel Prizes
This video shows the moment when Maralee Caruso, anchor of the six-o’clock news on CTV News in Winnipeg, discovered the Ig Nobel Prizes. Caruso reported on only one of the ten new Ig Nobel Prize winners: Thomas Thwaites, who shared this year’s biology prize, for creating prosthetic extensions of his limbs that allowed him to move […]
The man who years later drove to see another 1000-pound cheese
Cheese research, by an intrepid, longtime student of cheese. (Thanks to Adam K. Olson for bringing this to our attention.) Alison Mah reports, for the Ottowa Citizen: Connecticut man drives seven hours to Ottawa to see one very large cheese Anthony LoFrisco had been waiting almost 70 years to find another 1,000-pound provolone. He just […]
