This is another drawing by artist Becky Moon, about her favorite Ig Nobel Prize winners. Moon has been a scholar of the Ig Nobel Prizes since she was a young teenager. This one celebrates Ig Nobel Public Economics Prize that was awarded in the year 2008 to Geoffrey Miller, Joshua Tybur and Brent Jordan of the University of New Mexico, USA, […]
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Lap dancing and the British royal wedding
Professor Geoffrey Miller, winner of the 2008 Ig Nobel prize in economics for discovering that professional lap dancers earn higher tips when they are ovulating, analyzed the imminent British Royal wedding [the main participants of which are pictured here]. His report is published in New Scientist. It begins: One confusing thing about living in a […]
Lap dance research officer sought
Investigator Scott Langill directs us to this University of Leeds job posting: Research Officer – The rise and regulation of lap dancing and the place of sexual labour and consumption in the night time economy (Job reference: 316199 ) (Full-time, fixed term 12 months from March 2010) You will work on an ESRC funded study […]
