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Offline dpareja

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The Ig Nobel winners!
« on: September 13, 2013, 01:08:55 am »
http://www.improbable.com/ig/winners/

My favourite of this year's winners:

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PHYSICS PRIZE: Alberto Minetti [ITALY, UK, DENMARK, SWITZERLAND], Yuri Ivanenko [ITALY, RUSSIA, FRANCE], Germana Cappellini [ITALY], Nadia Dominici [ITALY, SWITZERLAND], and Francesco Lacquaniti [ITALY], for discovering that some people would be physically capable of running across the surface of a pond — if those people and that pond were on the moon.
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