We invite you (together with as large a group as you can muster) to throw paper planes at the 34th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, to honor the new Ig Nobel Prize winners. This year we will be blending our two paper-airplane-throwing traditions: If you are coming to the 2024 Ig Nobel Prize ceremony […]
“WHILE FLYING THE VISUAL APCH [approach], ABOUT 10 MI [miles] OUT, I FELT SOMETHING LAND ON MY R [right] FOOT. REACHING DOWN WITH MY R [right] HAND, I WAS SURPRISED TO FEEL SOMETHING COLD AND DAMP, WHICH MOVED …” So begins an airline pilot’s report (number ACN: 311910) as archived by the US Aviation Safety […]
I told my story in Federal Court in Boston sufficiently well that counsel for the manufacturer asked me to work for that company in any further cases. I found it a bit amusing that the request was made in the men’s lavatory. Sometime later I told the story to a woman lawyer who took umbrage. […]