Ig Nobel

The BBC had a news article about the Ig Nobel awards, announced at Harvard's Sanders Theatre.

The American science humour magazine, the Annals of Improbable Research, is the inspiration behind the Ig Nobels, which are now in their 26th year.

 Boylston CF leaders Andrew and Natasha enjoyed the ceremonies.

Natasha and Andrew (lower left in red)  at Saunders Theater Ig Nobel awards ceremony

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-37443204




in 2004 Christopher Chabris, a chess master, and Daniel Simons won an Ig Nobel award for their remarkable study of selective visual attention.

In my  opinion this could be a source of some blunders in chess when players focused so attentive to certain issues completely miss obvious blunders.

Christopher Chabris

Collection	Ig® Nobel - Winners
Year	2004
Category	Psychology
Countries	United States
Description	Daniel Simons of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Christopher Chabris of Harvard University, for demonstrating that when people pay close attention to something, it's all too easy to overlook anything else -- even a woman in a gorilla suit.
Reference	http://"Gorillas in Our Midst" Daniel J. Simons and Christopher F. Chabris, vol. 28,Perception, 1999, pages 1059-74. ; DEMO: http://viscog.beckman.uiuc.edu/media/ig.html

https://youtu.be/vJG698U2Mvo

http://theinvisiblegorilla.com/gorilla_experiment.html