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IgNobel Prizes 2012

By Ma. Isabel Garcia | September 27, 2012 - 12:00am

This week, you get a break from what some of my readers call “nosebleed science” because it is that time of the year for the kind of achievements, including those in science that “first makes you...

Science and Environment

The IgNobel Prizes 2010

By Maria Isabel Garcia | October 7, 2010 - 12:00am

Reading science is always alive for me but I do not have laughs as long as the ones I have come the awarding of the IgNobel prizes. The IgNobel Award is on its 20th year. It is for research that “first make...

Science and Environment

A time to cry and a time to laugh

By Maria Isabel Garcia | October 8, 2009 - 12:00am

“Puede na tumawa. Wala na si Pepeng! (We can laugh now. Pepeng is gone!).” I got that e-mail forwarded by a friend.

Science and Environment

The unimolar toothbrush misses the IgNobel

By Maria Isabel Garcia | October 9, 2008 - 12:00am

The IgNobel awards are given every year, around the same time as the more prestigious Nobel Prizes are. The IgNobel awards are given for works “that make us laugh, then make us think.”

Science and Environment

To ‘the’ or not to ‘the’

By Maria Isabel Garcia | October 18, 2007 - 12:00am

I am not so sure though how the Dutch who are known to harbor high pride in their dairy would feel about the research that made vanilla ice cream from cow poo. This work by Mayu Yamamoto tastefully...

Science and Environment

To ‘the’ or not to ‘the’

By Maria Isabel Garcia | October 11, 2007 - 12:00am

Seventeen years ago, science burst out the doors laughing in public and we welcomed it with our own roars of laughter. Since then, it is at this time during the Fall when the color of science changes from the usual...

Science and Environment

Moments in science: Aha and Aha-haha

By DE RERUM NATURA By Maria Isabel Garcia | October 12, 2006 - 12:00am

(First of two parts) October brings a tale of two separate annual, distinguished science awards. One carries over a million-dollar prize for each field, awarded in a solemn ceremony at Stockholm. It is attended...

Science and Environment

The two faces of science: The Nobel and the IgNobel

By DE RERUM NATURA By Maria Isabel Garcia | October 13, 2005 - 12:00am

Science has two faces just like show business and this could not be more apparent than in October every year since 1991 when the IgNobel awards in Harvard were announced right after the Nobel prizes.

Science and Environment