{"id":5240,"date":"2011-09-29T19:03:51","date_gmt":"2011-09-30T02:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=5240"},"modified":"2011-09-29T19:03:51","modified_gmt":"2011-09-30T02:03:51","slug":"ig-nobels-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2011\/09\/29\/ig-nobels-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Ig Nobels 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, it&#8217;s that time of year again. The <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ig_Nobel_Prize\">Ig Nobel Prize<\/a> ceremony was held this evening at Harvard. My favorite is the winner of the Ig Nobel Peace Prize, which went to<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Arturas Zuokas, the mayor of Vilnius, Lithuania, for demonstrating that the problem of illegally parked luxury cars can be solved by running them over with an armoured tank.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This could have plausibly gotten him an Ig Nobel in economics instead, since it&#8217;s all about incentives. The video is priceless:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Vilnius Mayor A.Zuokas Fights Illegally Parked Cars with Tank\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V-fWN0FmcIU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nAs of right now, the list of winners is still not up at the home page for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.improbable.com\/ig\/winners\/#ig2011\">Annals of Improbable Research<\/a>. That link should start working shortly, but until then I found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-15117051\">this article<\/a> from the BBC which gives complete coverage of the event. Enjoy!<br \/>\nOf course, this means that we will know the winners of the &#8220;real&#8221; Nobels soon enough. Put your best guess for the Physics prize in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, it&#8217;s that time of year again. The Ig Nobel Prize ceremony was held this evening at Harvard. My favorite is the winner of the Ig Nobel Peace Prize, which went to Arturas Zuokas, the mayor of Vilnius, Lithuania, for demonstrating that the problem of illegally parked luxury cars can be solved by running them &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2011\/09\/29\/ig-nobels-2011\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ig Nobels 2011&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,30,34,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcement","category-funny-ha-ha","category-go-ahead-waste-your-time","category-off-the-deep-end"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}