2013 Ig Nobels and Willpower

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Bitcoin for the homeless, Tricorders for food, and willpower never runs out, by Ian Woolf
The 2013 Ig Nobel Prizes for science that first makes you laugh, and then makes you think, by Ian Woolf,
Jennifer Clarke presents her 3 Minute Thesis - "Living on the Edge: Climate Stress in Intertidal Macroalga"
Presented and produced by Ian Woolf

Homeless, Unemployed, and Surviving on Bitcoins
BitCoinGet
Gyft - converting BitCoin to gift cards
Sean's Outpost - Pensacola charity that accepts BitCoin
Making homelessness illegal in Pensacola
Beliefs about willpower determine the impact of glucose on self-control
Study indicates willpower not depleted by use nor replenished by food
Mobile Material Analysis by NIR Spectrometer in Sugar Cube Format
What's for dinner? Just check the spectrometer

The 2013 Ig® Nobel Prize Ceremony & Lectures

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