Saturday, October 14, 2006
Ig Nobel Awards.
The Peace Prize is pretty cool. You can hear the audio clip here, that is, if you're not too old.
The Peace Prize is pretty cool. You can hear the audio clip here, that is, if you're not too old.
Ornithology. Ivan Schwab (pictured at the left) for exploring and explaining why woodpeckers do not get headaches.¶ 8:02 PM
Nutrition. Wasmia Al-Houty and Faten Al-Mussalam for showing that dung beetles are picky eaters.
Acoustics. D. Lynn Halpern, Randolph Blake and James Hillenbrand for trying to learn why people are irritated by the sound of nails scraping on a blackboard.
Mathematics. Nic Svenson and Piers Barnes for calculating the number of photographs you have to take to ensure nobody in a group will have their eyes closed.
Literature Daniel Oppenheimer for his report "Consequences of Erudite Vernacular Utilized Irrespective of Necessity: Problems with Using Long Words Needlessly."
Medicine Francis Fesmire, Majed Odeh, Harry Bassan and Arie Oliven, who published studies titled "Termination of Intractable Hiccups with Digital Rectal Massage."
Physics Basile Audoly and Sebastien Neukirch for their study of why, when you bend dry spaghetti, it usually breaks into more than two pieces.
Chemistry. Antonio Mulet, Jose Javier Benedito, Jose Bon and Carmen Rosselló for their study "Ultrasonic Velocity in Cheddar Cheese as Affected by Temperature."
Biology. Bart Knols and Ruurd de Jong for showing that the female malaria mosquito, Anopheles gambiae, is equally attracted to the smells of Limburger cheese and of human feet.
Peace. Howard Stapleton for inventing an electromechanical teenager repellent device, which makes an annoying noise designed to be audible to teens, not to adults.
