Ig Nobels Feature Exploding Colonoscopies, Left Leaning Views of Eiffel Tower 91
alphadogg writes "The Ig Nobel Prize ceremony has honored a wide array of strange research and advancement over the years, from exploding pants to woodpecker headaches to aggressive parking enforcement, and Thursday night's ceremony in Cambridge, Mass., was no exception. Particular highlights included a Russian company that turns ammunition into trace amounts of diamond, Japanese engineers who developed a speech jamming device, and research into such critical topics as why coffee is so hard to carry without slopping and what makes a ponytail move the way it does."
Re:Speech Jamming Device (Score:5, Insightful)
Step 1: Don't call them chicks.
Re:IgNobels are a disservice to basic research (Score:5, Insightful)
IgNobels are not really a disservice at all. They are a humorous recognition of the very thing you're talking about.
Nobody's discrediting those IgNobels (and, in fact, previous winners with quite high standing in their fields have always taken it with good humour and their science validated).
Bad science won't win an Ig Nobel. It's just unusual applications of good science that will.
Re:Speech Jamming Device (Score:4, Insightful)
True.. compared with the average population, a greater percentage of slashdotters are used to social stigma which, ironically, made them resilient to peer pressure, including misandry-trained women and society. It makes sense that fewer of them would want to get married, even if they are relatively ungeeky and successful.
Re:No significant effects? (Score:5, Insightful)
You're married for less than three years
Re:"misandry-trained women and society" (Score:5, Insightful)
Hardly. Tell that to the men who've been destroyed by the kangaroo family courts in this country. When she's hurt by him, it's all over the news as a national outrage. When he's hurt by her, he's emasculated on morning talk shows for being, in some cases, quite literally emasculated (penis chopped off). The attitude that men are the first cause for all her troubles is entwined in pretty much all current television and music as well. Our culture equates female empowerment with histrionic, narcissistic little twats like kim kardiashian, and then it arms this adolescent attitude with the force of the law. The net result shakes out as the men still being held responsible for sexual outcomes as in the distant past, but now lack any of the power to make relevant decisions, with the exception to abstain in the hopes it'll mitigate the risk of accusation. These guys are then labeled pussies by their sexually active peers and as 'afraid of real women' by feminists.
She can make the decision to ruin him for any reason and that's that. A glance walking down a hallway, an unbuttoned shirt, or a date request.. it doesn't matter as it's 'assault' if she says it 'made her uncomfortable'. There's no accountability on her part for using 'her right to choose' responsibly, knowing neither of them have the money to raise a child. No need to when all it takes is a belated accusation to ruin his life and have the state bilk money out of his paycheck and give it to her. If she's got a problem with him, the solution is just a single false abuse accusation away.
There cannot be equal distribution of power without equal distribution of responsibility, and one cannot fight for equality while only considering the needs, whims, and interests, of one side without considering the other.