Creative Arts for Healing (November 2006)

* * *  HUMOR IS HEALING * * *

The Ig® Nobel Prizes

    “The Ig Nobel Prizes honor achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think. The prizes are intended to celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative – and spur people's interest in science, medicine, and technology.

    “In a gala ceremony in Harvard's Sanders Theatre, 1200 splendidly eccentric spectators watch the winners step forward to accept their Prizes. These are physically handed out by genuinely bemused genuine Nobel Laureates.

    “The Ig Nobel Prizes are organized by the magazine Annals of Improbable Research. The ceremony is co-sponsored by the Harvard-Radcliffe Society of Physics Students and the Harvard-Radcliffe Science Fiction Association.

    “Books: Several Ig Nobel books have been translated into many languages.”
    First prize for 2006 was awarded for a study of a device that repels teenagers by making a high-pitched noise that is very uncomfortable for teenagers but that adults cannot hear.

   Another study explored why woodpeckers don’t get headaches.

http://improbable.com/ig/

IJHC-WHR Observations

* * *  HEALING  THROUGH THE CREATIVE ARTS * * *

Amazing what people can create out of a single sheet of paper