{"id":2626,"date":"2013-04-02T09:05:04","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T13:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/?p=2626"},"modified":"2013-06-18T14:21:08","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T18:21:08","slug":"can-serious-research-be-funny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/can-serious-research-be-funny\/","title":{"rendered":"Can serious research be funny?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While readi<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2013\/03\/mascot.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2627\" alt=\"mascot\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2013\/03\/mascot.gif\" width=\"250\" height=\"205\" \/><\/a>ng the newspaper, I came across a reference to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.improbable.com\/ig\/\">Ig Noble Prizes<\/a>, which celebrates research that makes people laugh and then think.\u00a0 The organization, Improbable Research, also publishes a bi-monthly magazine called, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.improbable.com\/magazine\/\"><i>Annals of <\/i><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.improbable.com\/magazine\/\"><i>Improbable Research<\/i><\/a>.\u00a0 Check it out to laugh and for thought-provoking studies.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image of &#8220;The Stinker,&#8221; the official mascot of the Ig Noble Prizes, from www.improbable.com\/ig\/<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While reading the newspaper, I came across a reference to the Ig Noble Prizes, which celebrates research that makes people laugh and then think.\u00a0 The organization, Improbable Research, also publishes a bi-monthly magazine called, Annals of Improbable Research.\u00a0 Check it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/can-serious-research-be-funny\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[67,183,104],"class_list":["post-2626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-academic-prizes","tag-humour","tag-scientific-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2626"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3057,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2626\/revisions\/3057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}