More details here: https://improbable.com/2011/10/14/ig-nobel-winner-writes-best-abstract-ever/
Remembered two fun things from the AIR today. This one is more meme-ish.
Actual assignment I handed in at University:
I would say most funny… but the worst because you have to read the whole paper to know what it is about.
The time around the superluminal neutrino result was crazy. The oddest papers were written on the slimmest chans it would last and their explination would be correct enough for a nobel prize later down the line.
If only I could write this
Basically Betteridge’s law of headlines