Laurier professor wins Nobel Prize parody award
Posted Sep 14, 2018 09:00:00 PM.
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A local university professor is the winner of a humorous twist on the Nobel Prize.
The Ig-Nobels are awarded every year by the science humour magazine Annals of Improbable Research and recognize comical but practical scientific discovery.
Wilfrid Laurier University business professor Lindie Liang and her colleagues found that abusing a virtual voodoo doll instead of your boss will make you feel better without getting you fired or thrown in jail.
Other winners included a British archaeology lecturer who figured out that eating human flesh isn't very nutritious, an Australian team that found that people who buy high tech products can't be bothered with the instruction manual, and Spanish university researchers who measured the effects of shouting and cursing while driving.
