What is the significance of "Ig"?
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Higashiyama Atsuki and the “between-legs effect”
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From Latin, meaning the lack of something.
Made me dream up the (it turns out) false etymology of "ignite" deriving from ig-, lack of, and nite, nonstandard spelling variant of night, combining to mean "remove darkness."
Well the Romans loved their false etymologies, so it seems fitting.
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#24Ah, the award made by the a former editor-in-chief of the Journal of Irreproducible Results and organized by the scientific humor magazine; Their moto is cool, makes you laugh then makes you think.
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#25Is there something wrong with me or my brain? I looked through my legs in my living room and the distances and colors seemed the same as right side up.
I would think the rush of blood to your head and eyes plays part in this phenomenon (if it really is a thing...)
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
Made me dream up the (it turns out) false etymology of "ignite" deriving from ig-, lack of, and nite, nonstandard spelling variant of night, combining to mean "remove darkness."
Well the Romans loved their false etymologies, so it seems fitting.
Can you explain? I didn't even know Romans thought about etymologies.
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Worked for me. Couldn’t it be something about the framing of the legs leading to a different processing of perspective?
When I was learning to draw, one technique to help spot errors is to flip the drawing upside down. This made misaligned features, bad proportions, weird perspective issues immediately jump out. Maybe it's the same effect.
Art teachers also have people copy existing art upside down, or turn their still life upside down (if possible). By trying to reproduce something upside down, your brain doesn't do as much pre-processing and chunking into preconceived shapes, and you're forced to actually look at the shape of the thing.
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#28"The prize he was awarded was a large clock that was equipped with a hand that indicated the sixty-first second — the “leap second”—and minute and hour hands that puzzlingly indicated seconds. The prize money was $10 trillion, although the unit of currency was not US dollars but rather Zimbabwe dollars, which had been discontinued at the time he received the prize. In fact, the prize money was worth about ¥170."
I love the Ig Nobels
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#29What is the significance of "Ig"?
When I see Ig it reminds me of grade we had in school LG, "lite godt" (that would translate to a grade D I think). Ig looks like LG written in small caps.
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#30This stuff seems more important than the prize indicates. It points to the physical body being as important as the mind's internal state when it comes to one's sense of self and the world around oneself. Also I like this statement:
> "Higashiyama has misgivings about current-day psychology. Many studies place importance on overt, conscious actions like seeing and listening. And some psychologists conclude that people are of one personality type or another based on questionnaires that lack evidence, and which are therefore indistinguishable from fortune-telling."