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fromFortune
5 days ago

Nobel Prize winner was hiking in Yellowstone with phone set to airplane mode. He'll keep doing it for work-life balance | Fortune

Nobel laureates often learn of awards unexpectedly, sometimes while asleep, traveling without service, or through early-morning knocks, surprise calls, or outreach.
fromBoston.com
3 weeks ago

Does painting cows with stripes prevent fly bites? Researchers who studied this win Ig Nobel prize

"When I did this experiment, I hoped that I would win the Ig Nobel. It's my dream. Unbelievable. Just unbelievable," said Tomoki Kojima, whose team put tape on Japanese beef cows and then spray-painted them with white stripes. Kojima appeared on stage in stripes and was surrounded by his fellow researchers who harassed him with cardboard flies.
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