{"id":8252,"date":"2012-09-21T08:28:41","date_gmt":"2012-09-21T13:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/wp\/?p=8252"},"modified":"2012-09-21T08:28:41","modified_gmt":"2012-09-21T13:28:41","slug":"but-can-you-find-meaningful-brain-activity-anywhere-in-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/but-can-you-find-meaningful-brain-activity-anywhere-in-washington\/","title":{"rendered":"But can you find &#8220;meaningful brain activity&#8221; in Washington?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In excitement of <a href=\"http:\/\/chizumatic.mee.nu\/mouretsu_pirates_--_bd_7\" target=\"_blank\">Sing Like a Pirate<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/strangeherring.com\/2012\/09\/19\/talk-like-chester-a-arthur-day\/\" target=\"_blank\">Talk Like Chester A. Arthur<\/a> Day, it was easy to forget that this is also the week in which the year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.improbable.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ig Nobel<\/a> prizes were announced. A couple of the highlights:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>NEUROSCIENCE PRIZE<\/strong>: Craig Bennett, Abigail Baird, Michael Miller, and George Wolford [USA], for demonstrating that brain researchers, by using complicated instruments and simple statistics, can see meaningful brain activity anywhere \u2014 even in a dead salmon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>LITERATURE PRIZE<\/strong>: The US Government General Accountability Office, for issuing a report about reports about reports that recommends the preparation of a report about the report about reports about reports.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The complete list is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.improbable.com\/ig\/winners\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In excitement of Sing Like a Pirate and Talk Like Chester A. Arthur Day, it was easy to forget that this is also the week in which the year&#8217;s Ig Nobel prizes were announced. A couple of the highlights: NEUROSCIENCE PRIZE: Craig Bennett, Abigail Baird, Michael Miller, and George Wolford [USA], for demonstrating that brain &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/but-can-you-find-meaningful-brain-activity-anywhere-in-washington\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;But can you find &#8220;meaningful brain activity&#8221; in Washington?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13],"tags":[279],"class_list":["post-8252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-curiosities-and-silly-stuff","category-humor-and-horror","tag-ig-nobel-prize"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-296","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}