Till now, I'd never heard of the Ig Nobel awards. They've been around for a few years and are awarded by Nobel prizewinners for (you guessed it) the most useless scientific research.
This years winner are:
- Medicine - Dr Fesmire for "termination of intractable hiccups with digital rectal massage".
- CSIRO scientists Piers Barnes and Nic Svenson (Aus) for Mathematics. For calculating how many photos must be taken to ensure nobody spoils one from blinking.
- Ivan Schwab, of the University of California,Davis, Ornithology - for research on why woodpeckers do not get headaches.
- Nutrition - for research showing dung beetles prefer the faeces of horses and dogs to those of camels and foxes.
- Acoustics - for research on why people dislike the sound of fingernails scraping on a blackboard.
- Physics - research into why dry spaghetti often broke into more than two pieces when bent.
2 comments:
Great stuff.
I just finished the book.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/B000FVHJD0/ref=sib_dp_pt/104-1462824-6052732#reader-link
Short articles great for the bathroom library.
Thanks Hammer.
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