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Orbilia

Posted 2007-10-05 5:31 AM (#97452)
Subject: Ig Nobel Awards, 2007

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7026150.stm

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ollie

Posted 2007-10-05 6:23 AM (#97454 - in reply to #97452)
Subject: RE: Ig Nobel Awards, 2007

My favorite Ig Nobel award was to those folks who published the paper "Incompetent, but unaware of it".

The thesis was that the incompetent folks are often blissfully unaware of their own incompetence, mostly because it takes at least minimal competence to be aware of one's own shortcomings."

Hmmm, I know that my ansanas suck...so that means I have at least a little knowledge?

http://www.apa.org/journals/features/psp7761121.pdf

GreenJello

Posted 2007-10-05 9:00 AM (#97462 - in reply to #97452)
Subject: RE: Ig Nobel Awards, 2007

Reminds me of a parable I just read.

So this woman wants to know everything is there to know. So she travels to India to find a guru. She tells her guru "I want to know everything there is to know." The guru agrees to this, and hands her a huge stack of books, and directs her to her own section of the cave.

The next morning the guru greets the woman and asks "Do you know everything there is to know?"

"No" she replies, and at that point the guru raps her very sternly on the head with his cane.

The next morning, the guru once again appears, and asks the woman "Do you know everything there is to know?"

Once again the woman replies "No", and once again the guru raps her on the head very hard.

This goes on for several months with the woman frantically reading and studing, and every morning getting rapped on the head by the guru. Until one morning, when the guru made his usual entrance.

Once again he asked "Do you know everything there is to know?"

Once again the woman answered "No," but this time she was quick and grabbed the guru stick before he struck her. The woman was dreadfully afraid and they stood there for a moment until the guru because to smile at her.

"Good," he said. "Now you know enough, and you've learned to stop the pain."

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