It was Marc Abrahams, the Ignobel administrator, who suggested this project, which is published on the Web site of the Annals.
Every time I suggest this project, the response is immediate and enthusiastic: "Where do I send a check?" To which I've had to respond: I don't know.
This suggests that project implementation follows somewhat different rules than mere funding.
The past suggests that this project will take many years to complete.
However, as the name of the project suggests, this was an operationalization of programmatic success.
As the scope of the project suggests, this is not popcorn television.
Novelist Arundhati Roy has suggested that the effect on those being moved was akin to the Holocaust, and that suggesting that this project could benefit millions was "fascist maths".
He has suggested that this project should be based on equality, transparency, technology and responsibility.
Parks officials, she said, "never mentioned, never indicated and never suggested that this project would be in two phases".
That said, the possibilities suggested by this project are equally fascinating and terrifying to contemplate.
