FEEDBACK’S favourite prizes, the Ig Nobels, were handed out last week at Harvard University in a ceremony produced by the Annals of Improbable Research that featured a mini-opera, Inertia makes the world go round.
We can’t help feeling a little proud that we spotted a couple of the prize-winning achievements ourselves. One was for the peace prize, which went to the inventor of cellphone ring tones that teenagers can hear but their teachers can’t (2 September). The other was for the literature prize, which went to Daniel Oppenheimer of Princeton University for his learned tome “Consequences of erudite vernacular utilised…
