NP those other Nobel prizes

[Doug Millison]

Coming in late on this thread, but some of you might like this, from 
Yahoo!'s Picks of the Week (October 23, 2000):

The Ig Nobel Prizes

	http://www.improbable.com/ig/ig-top.html

This year's Ig Nobel awards were presented at Harvard University, around
the same time as those Swedish prizes were announced. The awards are given
to individuals whose achievements "cannot or should not be reproduced."
The literature award, for example, went to an Australian woman whose book
"Living on Light" asserts that although most folks eat food, they don't
really need to. The psychology award went to two academic researchers for
their groundbreaking piece, "Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties
in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments."
This is great stuff -- don't miss the archive.