Charlie in Dayton
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Excerpted from:
mini-Annals of Improbable Research ("mini-AIR")
Issue Number 2003-09
September, 2003
(and mildly edited for some emphases by Charlie in Dayton)
(for further information, go to http://www.improbable.com)
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2003-09-11 Ig Nobel -- Tickets, Delegations, Webcast
Here's how to attend and/or see the 13th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony at Sanders Theatre on Thursday evening, October 2,
2003.
TICKETS: Harvard Box Office (617-496-2222)
Open noon to 6 p.m. Tuesdays-Sundays.
<http://140.247.118.196/tickets/details.cfm?EVENT_ID=2029>
AUDIENCE DELEGATIONS: If you have a group you want
officially recognized as an official Delegation,
be aware that the registration deadline for this
is Thursday, Sept. 25. See
<http://www.improbable.com/ig/2003/2003-details.html#delegations>.
INTERNET TELECAST: The live telecast will begin
at 7:30 PM (Boston time), at <http://www.improbable.com>
DETAILS are at
<http://www.improbable.com/ig/2003/2003-details.html>.
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2003-09-12 Murphy Incarnate
Most people think the "Murphy" in Murphy's Law is apocryphal. Most
people are wrong. Murphy's Law was named after Captain Edward A.
Murphy, Jr., whose utterance in 1949 gave rise to the naming of
the Law.
Murphy's son, Edward A. Murphy III, will deliver the keynote
address at this year's Ig Nobel Prize ceremony on October 2, at
Harvard.
Two days later, on October 4, at MIT, he will give one of this
year's Ig Informal Lectures. At the Lectures, Mr. Murphy will
display some of his father's engineering tools -- including
Murphy's slide rule! -- and also show a four-minute videotape in
which his father describes Murphy's Law.
BACKGROUND READING MATERIAL: For background reading on the true-
life, genuinely head-rattling historical saga/soap opera that was
the birth of Murphy's Law, you can read Nick Spark's adventure-
packed historical-detection article, which is being published in
AIR 9-5, and which we will post on the AIR web site
(www.improbable.com), in four juicy parts, which will appear on
September 15, 17, 22, and 24. Nick Spark, too, will appear at the
Ig Informal Lectures at MIT.
----------------------------------------------------------
Stock up on the popcorn (extra butter on mine, thanks) and the root beer. You do NOT want to miss this one...
...gotta check and see if this will be available on cd video later...
mini-Annals of Improbable Research ("mini-AIR")
Issue Number 2003-09
September, 2003
(and mildly edited for some emphases by Charlie in Dayton)
(for further information, go to http://www.improbable.com)
----------------------------------------------------------
2003-09-11 Ig Nobel -- Tickets, Delegations, Webcast
Here's how to attend and/or see the 13th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony at Sanders Theatre on Thursday evening, October 2,
2003.
TICKETS: Harvard Box Office (617-496-2222)
Open noon to 6 p.m. Tuesdays-Sundays.
<http://140.247.118.196/tickets/details.cfm?EVENT_ID=2029>
AUDIENCE DELEGATIONS: If you have a group you want
officially recognized as an official Delegation,
be aware that the registration deadline for this
is Thursday, Sept. 25. See
<http://www.improbable.com/ig/2003/2003-details.html#delegations>.
INTERNET TELECAST: The live telecast will begin
at 7:30 PM (Boston time), at <http://www.improbable.com>
DETAILS are at
<http://www.improbable.com/ig/2003/2003-details.html>.
----------------------------------------------------------
2003-09-12 Murphy Incarnate
Most people think the "Murphy" in Murphy's Law is apocryphal. Most
people are wrong. Murphy's Law was named after Captain Edward A.
Murphy, Jr., whose utterance in 1949 gave rise to the naming of
the Law.
Murphy's son, Edward A. Murphy III, will deliver the keynote
address at this year's Ig Nobel Prize ceremony on October 2, at
Harvard.
Two days later, on October 4, at MIT, he will give one of this
year's Ig Informal Lectures. At the Lectures, Mr. Murphy will
display some of his father's engineering tools -- including
Murphy's slide rule! -- and also show a four-minute videotape in
which his father describes Murphy's Law.
BACKGROUND READING MATERIAL: For background reading on the true-
life, genuinely head-rattling historical saga/soap opera that was
the birth of Murphy's Law, you can read Nick Spark's adventure-
packed historical-detection article, which is being published in
AIR 9-5, and which we will post on the AIR web site
(www.improbable.com), in four juicy parts, which will appear on
September 15, 17, 22, and 24. Nick Spark, too, will appear at the
Ig Informal Lectures at MIT.
----------------------------------------------------------
Stock up on the popcorn (extra butter on mine, thanks) and the root beer. You do NOT want to miss this one...
...gotta check and see if this will be available on cd video later...