• hsdkfr734r@feddit.nl
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    4 months ago

    the fucking Nobel Prize?!

    No, the Ig Nobel Prize:

    The Ig Nobel Prize monetary award is given in a solitary banknote for the amount of 100 trillion Zimbabwean dollars ($0.40 USD)

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        4 months ago

        It is a prize for serious science, just serious science that also happens to be funny

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      3 months ago

      i’m a bit disappointed that it’s not like 10 bucks at least, like haha funny yes, but come on you can give them an actual reward for actual science

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        The actual worth of the prize could be the publicity, to stand out and be recognizer as a scientist in a flood of publications. I’m just guessing.