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 ! starHere interesting Altmetric info about this paperstar


starNewpaper on  Efficient Parliament and  randomly selected politicians -  Physica A 390 (2011) 3944 star

 

starNew  paper onEfficient random  strategies  Physica A 390 (2011) 3496star



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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 star



Italian press


International press Videos and  interviews
Geo Rai 3 starstarstar(21.09.2017)
Sole24 ore su J.Barrow (ottobre 2013) starOuter space: a very peculiar principle by J. Barrow (30.08.11) star star star

Talk at Swedish TV

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(31.03.2015)
Focus (Maggio 2013) starBig Think (02.12.11)Nova Radio Firenzestarstarstar(05.11.2011)
Corriere della Sera(13.1.12)

Pour la Science ed (9/11)  star

Paper by J-P. Delahaye star

RADIO24 - MELOG 2.0 star(04.10.2011)
Quaderni di Management star(09/11)Enterprise Recruitment (8/11)ADNKronos Lab Italia star(22.03.2011)
Bianco Lavoro (23.03.2011)ISGTW star (25.05.2011)Business People (05.02.2011)
Avvenire (07.12.2010)

Financial Times:

L. Kellaway's  Editorial star

KappaeMme star star star(01.12.2010)
La7 (video) (05.12.2010)The Guardian starThe Marker Magazine star(03.11.2010)
Nuova Società starCyprus Mail starCinco Dias star(30.10.2010)
Sole 24 ore starNational Geographic starNuova Società star star star(25.10.2010)
Galileo  starThe New York TimesPanorama Economystar(20.10.2010)
ANSA star
Reuters


Le Scienze 
Science

Telecolor Buongiorno Sicilia star

(11.10.2010)
Moebius on linestarFox NewsTelecolor star 
(07.10.2010)
La StampaNew ScientistTG3 Sicilia ore 14.00 star(06.10.2010)
La Repubblica starPsycology TodayStep1 star star star 
(06.10.2010)
La Sicilia Vivere star
British Medical JournalVideo Regione 
(05.10.2010)
City Il CorriereDer Tagesspiegel
L'UnitàSunday's Zaaman
Blitz quotidianoPublico

Plus Magazine

National Geographic

(Italia) star

La Gazzetta del mezzogiorno

(News in English)


Epoca

The Economic Times (India)star


The New Zealand Herald star
Experimentarium - Danish TV
La ProvinciaAll Africa
PiùVoce.netExpresso
OggimediaGlobo
Parma OggiVoces/a
Catania NotizieEl Mundo RadioMonteCarlo(17.10.2010)
Science BackstageLe FigaroRadio Catania star(11.10.2010)
Virgilio NotizieLe Monde Radio2 Brave Ragazze
(10.10.2010)
Zeus NewsVidenskab DkRadio 24 
(9.10.2010)
Gravità zeroWiredRadio DeeJay 
(4.10.2010)
QNMThe Canadian PressRadio2 Caterpillar 
(1.10.2010)
e-linuxThe Telegraph
Radio  Capital 
(1.10.2010)
StyleYahoo News
Ecowiki
Slashdot

Network World
Aerospace Software
The Gazette
Cambridge day

The Chronicle
The Washington Post
BlogsCalgary Herald

Care2
Surrey Physics Blog The National Student
Climateer investingNew York Post
The last word on nothing star
Business Daily
Risorse umane ed organizzazioni
Fast Company
FRC starPhysics Buzz
Blog di Andrea Magnani star
Membrana
Cortical Hemming... star
Veda.sme.sk
Beppe.Grillo.it starEslob
www.militari.info starHoop China
FINeXdesign starHunan Gov
Songs from the wood starPhilstar.com
Area Wide News The wiseworld observer


Click here for a website where you can find several examples (around the world) where lotteries have been used with success, - mantained by Conall Boyle star



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