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Since 1999, Slashdot has been covering the annual Ig Nobel prize ceremonies — which honor real scientific research into strange or surprising subjects. "Each winner (or winning team) has done something that makes people LAUGH, then THINK," explains the ceremony web page, promising that "a gaggle of genuine, genuinely bemused Nobel laureates handed the Ig Nobel Prizes to the new Ig Nobel winners." As co-founder Marc Abrahams says on his LinkedIn profile, "All these things celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative — and spur people's interest in science, medicine, and technology." You can watch this year's entire goofy webcast online....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dY77j6uBHICall it "Vol 13" out of a career of countless lies that may be covered by volumes 1-1000. No lies since January 2016 are counted in this volume. By no means comprehensive, this is just a brief video review of some possible pertinent but topical lies and hypocrisy authored by the thoroughly discredited Hillary Clinton as she is busted over and over again.Despite being busted, Hillary shamelessly screeches lie after lie after lie -- BIG lies. Watch her routinely deny changing mind on matters and issues even having been caught with her hand in the cookie jar on politically damaging...

Though federal regulations require offshore drilling locations to be inspected by the Department of the Interior's Minerals Mining Service every 30 days, those inspections have repeatedly not happened since the Deepwater Horizon site was permitted by MMS in 2001 – including one out of every four months since President Obama's inauguration. ABC News has learned that in the 16 months from January 2009 through April 2010 MMS failed to inspect Deepwater Horizon four times – in May 2009, August 2009, December 2009, and January 2010. The reasons for the lack of inspections, sources said, were logistic.

WASHINGTON, July 11, 2006 – Global terrorists started their war against the United States long before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, Vice President Richard B. Cheney told a gathering of Michigan National Guardsmen yesterday. Vice President Richard B. Cheney pins the Purple Heart Medal onto Air Force Master Sgt. Henry G. Christle Jr., July 10 during a rally for the Michigan National Guard at Selfridge Air National Guard Base, Mich. Christle was wounded in action on March 23, 2004, while serving as a special operations weather team forecaster and observer Special Operations Task Force 180 in Afghanistan. White House...

"I can wage a better war on terror than George Bush has." So speaks Senator Kerry in the U.S. presidential campaign's final days, again reminding voters that the key issue in this race remains as it was a year earlier - deciding which candidate will better protect Americans from terrorism.As with so many topics, the basic difference between Kerry and President Bush is one of character, with the challenger repeatedly changing his mind and the president sticking with one position.On occasion, Mr. Kerry adopts Bush-like terminology. For example, in September 2004 he talked about the war on terror being "as...