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An Ig Nobel Prize for North and South Korea?
In 2020, India and Pakistan shared the Ig Nobel Prize for peace “for having their diplomats surreptitiously ring each other’s doorbells in the middle of the night, and then run away before anyone had a chance to answer the door.” … Continue reading
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Tagged Ig Nobel Prize, North Korea, psychological warfare, South Korea
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The passive voice is political
Eric Martinez, Francis Mollica and Edward Gibson of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Edinburgh won an Ig Nobel Prize for literature this year for their work on what makes legal documents so hard to read. Ironically, … Continue reading
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Tagged active voice, Ig Nobel Prize, MIT, passive voice, science communication, science writing
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