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Ig Nobel 2022: Research on constipated scorpions, knob turning awarded for making people ‘laugh, then think’

Winners also receive Zimbabwean $10 trillion bills

The Independent UK

Constipated scorpions, love at first sight inspire Ig Nobels

The sex lives of constipated scorpions, cute ducklings with an innate sense of physics, and a life-size rubber moose may not appear to have much in common, but they all inspired the winners of this year’s Ig Nobels

The Independent UK

Japanese professor wins Ig Nobel prize for study on knob turning

Annual satirical awards laud little-known research topics such as why ducklings swim in a line formation

The Guardian - UK

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Ig Nobel Prize 2022 winners include research showing ancient Maya used enemas to get high

The winners of the Ig Nobels, satirical prizes for scientific achievements that "make people laugh and then think", were awarded a fold-up paper prize and Zimbabwean $10 trillion note.

ABC News

How to think like Albert Einstein

Exertion and isolation are key elements in the making of revolutionary ideas. Can our classrooms prepare students accordingly?

The Hindu

Green activists urge U.N. rights body to reject Vietnam's bid to join

More than 50 winners of a prominent global environmental prize have called on the U.N. human rights council (UNHRC) to reject Vietnam's effort to join it, citing a crackdown on climate activists in the Southeast Asian nation.

Reuters

Leading environmentalists decry crackdown on Vietnam climate activists

Letter from Goldman prize winners aims to block country’s bid to join UN’s human rights council over its jailing of campaigners

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Vietnam urged to free green activist Nguy Thi Khanh as it bids to join UN rights body

Goldman laureates raise concerns over Vietnam’s record on suppressing environmental protest

The Guardian - UK

Celebrate Babbitt’s 100th by reading ‘It Can’t Happen Here’

Sinclair Lewis’ famed novel eclipsed by grim dystopian vision.

Chicago Sun-Times

Like a poet writing thrillers: why you should read Javier Marías

The Spanish author’s death has robbed us of his unique, riddling investigations into reality

The Guardian - UK

Balzan Prizes honor work in humanities, science

Three Americans are among winners of this year’s Balzan Prize

The Independent UK

Spanish novelist Javier Marías dies in Madrid hospital aged 70

Marías, also a translator and columnist, was described as ‘one of Spain’s greatest contemporary writers’

The Guardian - UK

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Author Orhan Pamuk: ‘I used to have three bodyguards, now I have one’

Nobel prize winner Orhan Pamuk on Salman Rushdie’s attack, responding to extremism in Turkey – and his new, oddly prophetic, pandemic novel

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Climate scientists are becoming climate activists as governments fail to heed warnings

As the gulf between climate science and climate action grows, these scientists are putting their bodies on the line to demand more is done.

The Hindu

Professor from Chennai to head mathematics panel

Sanoli Gun from city’s The Institute of Mathematical Sciences will be the first president of Asia-Oceania Women in Mathematics

Tribune News Service

Review: 'Afterlives,' Abdulrazak Gurnah

FICTION: War and peace surge through the pages of a Nobel laureate's captivating, brilliant new novel.

The Independent UK

Nobel scientist sparks outrage by advising Italians to cook pasta without gas

‘It would be a disaster’, said a leading chef

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Nobel peace prize winners call for action on online disinformation

Campaigning journalists say data-harvesting Big Tech business model an ‘existential threat’ to democracies

Al Jazeera

Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi gets 3 years’ jail for election fraud

Latest sentence adds to the 17 years in prison that Aung San Suu Kyi has already been given in military-ruled Myanmar.

Reuters

Myanmar's Suu Kyi gets jail with hard labour for election fraud

Myanmar's deposed former leader Aung San Suu Kyi was found guilty of electoral fraud on Friday and sentenced to three years in jail with hard labour, according to a source familiar with the proceedings.

ABC News

Eureka Prize won by motor neurone disease survivor Justin Yerbury for work on illness

Professor Justin Yerbury's discoveries around motor neurone disease are driving new research into the causes of cell dysfunction.

The Hindu

Academia, research and the glass ceiling in India

True gender parity is when institutions consider women as assets rather than it being just a diversity rectification issue

The Independent UK

Cambodian, Japanese among winners of Magsaysay Awards

A psychiatrist who helped fellow Cambodians recover from trauma resulting from the Khmer Rouge’s genocidal rule and a Japanese ophthalmologist who led an effort to treat thousands of Vietnamese villagers are among those selected for this year’s Ramon Magsaysay Awards, regarded as Asia’s version of the Nobel Prize

The Conversation

Mapping food supply chains, nanotech cancer diagnosis, and tracking bushfire recovery winners at 2022 Eureka Prizes

A microscope slide that can diagnose cancer, mapping how what we eat affects the environment, and a volunteer effort tracking bushfire damage. These were just a few of the scientific projects recognised at the 2022 Australian Museum Eureka Prizes, announced in Sydney.

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