Message Board?
Um, what's the deal with the interTASP message board? Are we allowed to join? Has anybody done so yet?
Anyway . . . I was browsing the IgNobel Prizes again the other day (Thanks again, jsn!). My definite favorite:
http://www.improb.com/ig/1994/1994-math.html
Groetjes,
Sam
posted by Sam at 5:20 PM
2 Comments:
I would have to say that my vote goes to the dude at uminn who mnaged to get permission to fill a 25 yard swimming pool with guar gum in order to settle whether a person would swim faster in water or syrup. yay for the dreamers.
-b
11:21 PM, December 11, 2005
I think you need to give the real credit to the kind-hearted physics department that funded him in that worthy(?) endeavor.
4:49 PM, December 12, 2005
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