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Oct. 8th, 2007
The Ig Nobels have been handed out!
Oct. 8th, 2007 04:04 pmThe Ig Nobel awards are out! Read all about them here: http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/10/04/ig.nobels.ap/index.html
A few of my favorite winners:
Glenda Browne of Australia won for her study of the word "the" and the problems it causes for putting things into alphabetical order.
Hamsters given Viagra needed 50 percent less time to recover from a six-hour time zone change. We'll find a cure for jet lag yet.
The Ig Nobel for nutrition went to a concept that sounds like a restaurant marketing ploy: a bottomless bowl of soup. the bowl was filled invisibly from the bottom so that it always looked full. Not surprisingly people ate a lot more soup.
Mathematics professors won for coming up with a simple formula on how sheets get wrinkled in a pattern seen in human skin. Take that, Charlie Epps.
Dutch scientist Johanna van Bronswijk is doing a census of the mites, insects, spiders and other creatures with which humans share their bed. TMI, sweetie.
Japanese researcher Mayu Yamamoto, who received the chemistry Ig for her work extracting vanilla flavor from cow dung, got an additional honor: a local ice cream shop created a new flavor, the "Yum-a-Moto Vanilla Twist," in her honor. There are no words.
The U.S. Air Force won the Ig Nobel Peace Prize this year for its proposal to develop a "gay bomb" -- a chemical weapon that would make enemy soldiers want to make love with each other, not war with the enemy. No one from the Air Force would appear at the ceremony to accept the awards. They also win the spoilsport award.
A few of my favorite winners:
Glenda Browne of Australia won for her study of the word "the" and the problems it causes for putting things into alphabetical order.
Hamsters given Viagra needed 50 percent less time to recover from a six-hour time zone change. We'll find a cure for jet lag yet.
The Ig Nobel for nutrition went to a concept that sounds like a restaurant marketing ploy: a bottomless bowl of soup. the bowl was filled invisibly from the bottom so that it always looked full. Not surprisingly people ate a lot more soup.
Mathematics professors won for coming up with a simple formula on how sheets get wrinkled in a pattern seen in human skin. Take that, Charlie Epps.
Dutch scientist Johanna van Bronswijk is doing a census of the mites, insects, spiders and other creatures with which humans share their bed. TMI, sweetie.
Japanese researcher Mayu Yamamoto, who received the chemistry Ig for her work extracting vanilla flavor from cow dung, got an additional honor: a local ice cream shop created a new flavor, the "Yum-a-Moto Vanilla Twist," in her honor. There are no words.
The U.S. Air Force won the Ig Nobel Peace Prize this year for its proposal to develop a "gay bomb" -- a chemical weapon that would make enemy soldiers want to make love with each other, not war with the enemy. No one from the Air Force would appear at the ceremony to accept the awards. They also win the spoilsport award.