Concern over US travel visas prompts Ig Nobels to move its awards to Europe
apnews.comHere's the blog post
https://improbable.com/2026/03/10/the-ig-nobel-prize-ceremon...
> Abrahams explains: “The city of Zurich and its institutions rapidly moved mountains (only metaphorically — in Switzerland it is illegal to physically move mountains) and committed to make this possible. Switzerland has nurtured many unexpected good things — Albert Einstein’s physics, the world economy, and the cuckoo clock leap to mind — and is again helping the world appreciate improbable people and ideas.”
I would like to point out the cuckoo clocks originate from the Black Forest in southwestern Germany - not Switzerland
They should introduce a “war prize” for “Outstanding contributions to war: arms proliferation, damage to international cooperation, and organizations detracting from peace, and human rights contributions to war” But maybe after they move out of the US.
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