The 2014 Ig Nobel Prizes

[HansV]

Regulars of Eileen's Lounge may know that I regularly stay up late. According to research that has been awarded the 2014 Ig Nobel Prize for Psychology, I am likely to be "more self-admiring, more manipulative, and more psychopathic than people who habitually arise early in the morning" (such as Rudi).

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[jstevens]

Hans,

It appears you will have to wait until the morning in order to get a reply from Rudi.

It has not dawned upon him,
John

[HansV]

You're right!

[StuartR]

Some of this year's ignoble awards had me laughing out loud.

[Rudi]

The definition of informal psychopathic is as follows:

abnormal and obsessive; manic.
"an obsessive attention to detail that looked almost psychopathic"

Had to go to bed early as I had to pick my son up from the airport. He returned home from a week long trip to Los Angeles. (LA was very HOT - literally!)

I can agree with this as details don't easily eskape eagle eyed Hans. (I'm thinking that John Gray is also psychopathic in a slightly different way!)
Maybe I can start to test out your tipping level on that "manipulative" theory

[BobH]

Kang Lee, from the University of Toronto, Canada, and colleagues showed their subjects pictures of "noise" - like the random speckles you used to get on old, out-of-tune TVs - to see what patterns the volunteers would identify.

I've read that the "noise" mentioned in this quote that shows up on TV sets is actually radio signals that were emitted during the Big Bang event at the start of the Universe. Sadly, I cannot remember the source; but I do recall that I read it as credible because of the stature of the source. I think it might have been associated with the deep space antennas listening for messages at Arecibo, Puerto Rico.

[viking33]

Kang Lee, from the University of Toronto, Canada, and colleagues showed their subjects pictures of "noise" - like the random speckles you used to get on old, out-of-tune TVs - to see what patterns the volunteers would identify.

I've read that the "noise" mentioned in this quote that shows up on TV sets is actually radio signals that were emitted during the Big Bang event at the start of the Universe. Sadly, I cannot remember the source; but I do recall that I read it as credible because of the stature of the source. I think it might have been associated with the deep space antennas listening for messages at Arecibo, Puerto Rico.

Boy, that's a far out idea!