Universal HubMar 10
It's come to this: The Ig Nobel Awards, presented at Harvard or MIT since the 1990s, is moving to Zurich because the US is not safe for foreign visitors
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/research-frontiers/ig-nobels-to-move-awards-to-switzerland-due-to-concern-over-us-travel-visas/91073250
Ig Nobels to move awards to Switzerland due to concern over US travel visas

The annual ceremony of the Ig Nobels, a satirical award for scientific achievement, is normally held in the United States. This September it will take place in Zurich after organisers deemed the US “unsafe.”

www.swissinfo.ch
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@universalhub real danger that the local warlord might demand a prize as tribute otherwise
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@djm62 @universalhub If I'm being entirely truthful I think it would be hilarious to give him one, though i get that this would sap the light-heartedness out of the whole thing and be no fun
Mar 11 at 12:54amWeb
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@renardboy @djm62 One of the very first Ig Nobels was a Peace Prize to Edward Teller, father of the H Bomb and longtime warmonger, for his "lifelong efforts to change the meaning of peace as we know it."