[HN Gopher] The 34th First Annual Ig Nobel Ceremony
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       The 34th First Annual Ig Nobel Ceremony
        
       Author : mfld
       Score  : 21 points
       Date   : 2024-09-13 18:37 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (improbable.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (improbable.com)
        
       | philshem wrote:
       | Here are the prize winners: https://improbable.com/ig/winners/
        
         | sqeaky wrote:
         | Just reading the references for each of these is gold!
         | 
         | Trout muscular control in a vortex?! The correlation between
         | super old people and lack of birth documentation and pension
         | fraud?!
        
           | teruakohatu wrote:
           | I can't quite figure out why " Supercentenarians and the
           | Oldest-Old Are Concentrated into Regions with No Birth
           | Certificates and Short Lifespans" is an ignoble candidate let
           | alone winner.
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           | This has been long suspected, makes perfect sense and in my
           | mind isn't funny, just logical.
        
       | extragood wrote:
       | Why is it the 34th "first annual" ceremony?
       | 
       | Is it humor or is there something deeper?
        
         | DrJokepu wrote:
         | I'm fairly certain that this was one of those so-called "jokes"
         | I've read about.
        
       | ChrisArchitect wrote:
       | [dupe] Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41526086
        
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