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Ig Nobel 2010

A selection of press articles, interviews & talks covering the IG Nobel prize 2010 for Management given to

Alessandro Pluchino, Andrea Rapisardaand Cesare Garofalo

for demonstrating mathematically that organizations would become more efficient if they promoted people at random.

Here the original paper-- Here further links and supplementary material

NEW ! Here interesting Altmetric info about this paper

New paper on Efficient Parliament and randomly selected politicians - Physica A 390 (2011) 3944

New paper onEfficient random strategies Physica A 390 (2011) 3496

The Official video of the XX IG Nobel prize ceremony

Our IG Nobel photo album
A personal short video of the ceremony with our acceptance speech

Browse info on all IG Nobel prize winners (iphone/ipad itunes app) (NEW)

A real successful experiment: the case of Ricardo Semler and his SEMCO company

Italian press	International press	Videos and interviews
		Geo Rai 3	(21.09.2017)
Sole24 ore su J.Barrow (ottobre 2013)	Outer space: a very peculiar principle by J. Barrow (30.08.11)	Talk at Swedish TV	(31.03.2015)
Focus (Maggio 2013)	Big Think (02.12.11)	Nova Radio Firenze	(05.11.2011)
Corriere della Sera(13.1.12)	Pour la Science ed (9/11) Paper by J-P. Delahaye	RADIO24 - MELOG 2.0	(04.10.2011)
Quaderni di Management (09/11)	Enterprise Recruitment (8/11)	ADNKronos Lab Italia	(22.03.2011)
Bianco Lavoro (23.03.2011)	ISGTW (25.05.2011)	Business People	(05.02.2011)
Avvenire (07.12.2010)	Financial Times: L. Kellaway's Editorial	KappaeMme	(01.12.2010)
La7 (video) (05.12.2010)	The Guardian	The Marker Magazine	(03.11.2010)
Nuova Società	Cyprus Mail	Cinco Dias	(30.10.2010)
Sole 24 ore	National Geographic	Nuova Società	(25.10.2010)
Galileo	The New York Times	Panorama Economy	(20.10.2010)
ANSA	Reuters
Le Scienze	Science	Telecolor Buongiorno Sicilia	(11.10.2010)
Moebius on line	Fox News	Telecolor	(07.10.2010)
La Stampa	New Scientist	TG3 Sicilia ore 14.00	(06.10.2010)
La Repubblica	Psycology Today	Step1	(06.10.2010)
La Sicilia Vivere	British Medical Journal	Video Regione	(05.10.2010)
City Il Corriere	Der Tagesspiegel
L'Unità	Sunday's Zaaman
Blitz quotidiano	Publico
	Plus Magazine
National Geographic (Italia)	La Gazzetta del mezzogiorno (News in English)
	Epoca
	The Economic Times (India)
	The New Zealand Herald
	Experimentarium - Danish TV
La Provincia	All Africa
PiùVoce.net	Expresso
Oggimedia	Globo
Parma Oggi	Voces/a
Catania Notizie	El Mundo	RadioMonteCarlo	(17.10.2010)
Science Backstage	Le Figaro	Radio Catania	(11.10.2010)
Virgilio Notizie	Le Monde	Radio2 Brave Ragazze	(10.10.2010)
Zeus News	Videnskab Dk	Radio 24	(9.10.2010)
Gravità zero	Wired	Radio DeeJay	(4.10.2010)
QNM	The Canadian Press	Radio2 Caterpillar	(1.10.2010)
e-linux	The Telegraph	Radio Capital	(1.10.2010)
Style	Yahoo News
Ecowiki	Slashdot
	Network World
	Aerospace Software
	The Gazette
	Cambridge day
	The Chronicle
	The Washington Post
Blogs	Calgary Herald
	Care2
Surrey Physics Blog	The National Student
*Climateer investing*	New York Post
The last word on nothing	Business Daily
Risorse umane ed organizzazioni	Fast Company
FRC	Physics Buzz
Blog di Andrea Magnani	Membrana
Cortical Hemming...	Veda.sme.sk
Beppe.Grillo.it	Eslob
www.militari.info	Hoop China
FINeXdesign	Hunan Gov
Songs from the wood	Philstar.com
Area Wide News	The wiseworld observer


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NEWS

In 2000 the IG Nobel prize was assigned to Andrey Geim and Michael Berry

for an experiment on the levitation of a frog....

See here Michael Berry's page on his IG Nobel prize

Andrey Geim won this year also the Nobel Prize for Physics