A parody of the Nobel Prizes, the Ig Nobel Prizes are awarded each year in mid-September, around the time the recipients of the genuine Nobel Prizes are announced, for ten achievements that "first make people laugh, and then make them think". Commenting on the 2006 awards, Marc Abrahams, editor of Annals of Improbable Research and co-sponsor of the awards, said that "[t]he prizes are intended to celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative, and spur people's interest in science, medicine, and technology".[1] All prizes are awarded for real achievements, except for three in 1991 and one in 1994, due to an erroneous press release.
The awards were presented on October 3. Each winner reviewed a medal shaped like a frying pan that makes noise when shaken and Cambridge parking passes that are valid from 3 a.m. – 4 a.m. the day after Christmas.[2]
The first nomination also featured three fictional recipients for fictional achievements.[6]
The ceremony took place on 6 October 1995.[25]
The ceremony took place on 3 October 1996.[32]
The ceremony took place on 9 October 1997.[39]
The ceremony took place on 8 October 1998.[46]
The ceremony took place on 30 September 1999.[54]
The ceremony took place on 5 October 2000.[59]
The ceremony took place on 4 October 2001.
The ceremony took place on 3 October 2002.
The ceremony took place on 2 October 2003.
The ceremony took place on 30 September 2004.
The ceremony took place on 6 October 2005.
The ceremony took place on 5 October 2006.
The ceremony took place on 4 October 2007.
The ceremony took place on 2 October 2008.[127]
The ceremony took place on 1 October 2009.
The ceremony took place on 30 September 2010.
The ceremony took place on 29 September 2011.
The ceremony took place on 20 September 2012.
The ceremony took place on 12 September 2013.
The ceremony took place on 18 September 2014.
The ceremony took place on 17 September 2015.
The ceremony took place on 22 September 2016.
The ceremony took place on 14 September 2017.[236][237]
The ceremony took place on 13 September 2018.[249][250]
The ceremony took place on 12 September 2019.[261]
The ceremony took place on 17 September 2020 and was webcast.[273]
The 31st First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony took place on Thursday, 9 September 2021 and was webcast.[285][286]
The 32nd First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony took place on Thursday, 15 September 2022, and was presented in a webcast format.[301]
The 33rd First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony took place on Thursday, 14 September 2023, and was presented in webcast.[313]
The 34th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony took place on Thursday, 12 September 2024, and was held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[329]
However... we later discovered that the documentation for that was suspect. We had relied entirely on press accounts (from usually-reliable sources). When we found ourselves unable to verify those press reports, we retracted that prize.
Interestingly, the facility was partly inspired by previous research conducted by Russian physicist Andrew Geim in which he floated a frog with a magnet. The experiment earned Geim the Ig Nobel Prize in Physics, a satirical award given to unusual scientific research. It's cool that a quirky experiment involving floating a frog could lead to something approaching an honest-to-God antigravity chamber.
It is said to be the first of its kind and could play a key role in the country's future lunar missions. Landscape is supported by a magnetic field and was inspired by experiments to levitate a frog.
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Negli ultimi due anni, pressoché tutti gli aspetti della compilazione dei conti nazionali italiani sono stati sottoposti a verifica e a modifiche finalizzate a migliorarne sia i presupposti metodologici, sia le fonti dei dati. Ne deriva un aumento della robustezza delle misurazioni ma anche l'emergere di revisioni significative per molti aggregati economici (lo stesso livello del Pil, il valore aggiunto settoriale, l'occupazione, ecc.). Molte di queste innovazioni sono fondate sull'utilizzo di nuove fonti informative, provenienti dall'integrazione tra basi di dati amministrativi e dati di indagine (ad esempio la nuova base di informazioni per le statistiche strutturali di impresa). La disponibilità di basi informative più ricche, che permettono un utilizzo massiccio di dati individuali relativi a imprese e lavoratori, ha contribuito in maniera determinante al ridisegno delle procedure di stima di due degli elementi centrali dei conti nazionali: il modello di definizione dell'input di lavoro e i metodi di misura dell'economia non-osservata e, in particolare, della componente connessa con la sotto dichiarazione dell'attività economica da parte della imprese
This year, Peter K. Jonason from University of Western Sydney, along with two other colleagues, received an Ig Nobel for amassing evidence that people who habitually stay up late are, on average, more self-admiring, more manipulative, and more psychopathic than people who habitually arise early in the morning. The research team argued, in their study of 263 people, that Dark Triad traits—narcissism, Machiavellianism and psychopathy—were linked to night owl personalities.