Ten trillion dollar prize for Ig Nobel award winners… in Zim dollar

[Jan]

Ten trillion dollar prize for Ig Nobel award winners… in Zim dollar

Winners of this year’s Ig Nobel awards will receive 10 trillion Zimbabwean dollars in prize money.

 

[Thor]

How much is that?

R1?

 

[Thor]

Since this can barely buy you a bread

 

[PHP_Ninja]

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[xumwun]

Since this can barely buy you a bread

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Whats with that font that looks something from the cover of 80s rock album

 

[Dave]

Whats with that font that looks something from the cover of 80s rock album

Bob liked it, maybe he's a secret fan of 80's rock .

 

[Thor]

ACDC sponsored bank note

 

[Gordon_R]

For those who missed out on their last decade history of hyperinflation: http://www.adamsmith.org/blog/money-banking/theres-a-lot-of-ruin-in-a-nation

The highest – and last – banknote to be printed by the bank in 2008 was 100tn Zimbabwean dollars. It was not enough to ride a public bus to work for a week.

The bank said customers who still had stashes of old Zimbabwean notes could walk into any bank and get $1 for every 250tn they hold. That means a holder of a 100tn banknote will get 40 cents.

 

[skimread]

One of this year’s prizes went to Ahmed Shafik a (now late) scientist from the University of Cairo who studied the effects of wearing polyester, cotton, or wool trousers on the sex life of rats, according to Science Magazine.

Surely this is a spoof article

 

[Gordon_R]

Surely this is a spoof article

The Ig Nobel prizes are absolutely real, but also a spoof on scientific research. See: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-37443204 and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ig_Nobel_Prize

It is unlikely, though, that the German carmaker Volkswagen will appreciate the point or humour of the Ig Nobels.

The firm has been awarded the chemistry prize for the way it cheated emissions tests.

The 2009 Mathematics award:

Gideon Gono, governor of Zimbabwe's Reserve Bank, for giving people a simple, everyday way to cope with a wide range of numbers by having his bank print notes with denominations ranging from one cent to one hundred trillion dollars.

 

[skimread]

The Ig Nobel prizes are absolutely real, but also a spoof on scientific research. See: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-37443204 and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ig_Nobel_Prize

How do you nominate someone?

Jacob Zuma should get a lifetime award for his AIDS research, women's studies, geography, mathematics and leadership.

 

[Gordon_R]

How do you nominate someone?

Jacob Zuma should get a lifetime award for his AIDS research, women's studies, geography, mathematics and leadership.

The Ig Nobel prizes are supposed to make you smile, in an ironic way. There is nothing funny about Number 1, he-he he-he. See: http://mg.co.za/article/2015-06-10-zuma-went-he-he-he-he-all-the-way-home

 

[Swa]

It's pointless to convert to Zim$ as they now use US$.