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Comment Re:Dunning doesn't have a Nobel Prize (Score 2) 158

He won an Ig-Nobel prize, but not a Nobel AFAIK. It mentions neither in TFA.

Indeed, he won the Ig Nobel together with Kruger in 2000, but the Ig Nobels are clearly different from the Nobel prizes:

The Ig Nobel Prizes honor achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think. The prizes are intended to celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative — and spur people's interest in science, medicine, and technology.

Submission + - TSA Groper Files SLAPP Suit Against Blogger (techdirt.com)

An anonymous reader writes: TSA employee Theldala Magee has filed a lawsuit against a blogger demanding $500k in damages for alleging a particularly invasive search involving multiple incursions of a finger into the passenger's vagina. The passenger, who likened the feeling to being raped, is being sued for defamation for supposedly sullying the otherwise good name of a checkpoint smurf.

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