Posted on 10/05/2007 1:05:14 AM PDT by Daffynition
Here is the list of the 2007 Ig Nobel winners, awarded Thursday at Harvard University by the Annals of Improbable Research magazine:
MEDICINE: Dr. Brian Witcombe and Dan Meyer for their report "Sword Swallowing and its Side Effects."
PHYSICS: L. Mahadevan and Enrique Cerda Villablanca for studying wrinkle patterns in sheets.
BIOLOGY: Dr. Johanna E.M.H. von Bronswijk for her census of all the mites, insects, spiders, pseudoscorpions, bacteria, algae and ferns found in our beds.
CHEMISTRY: Mayi Yamamoto for developing a way to extract vanillin -- vanilla fragrance and flavoring -- from cow dung.
LINGUISTICS: Juan Manuel Toro, Josep Trobalon and Nuria Sebastian-Galles for demonstrating that rats can't tell the difference between a person speaking Japanese backward and a person speaking Dutch backward.
LITERATURE: Glenda Browne for her study of the definite article "the" and the ways it causes problems when alphabetizing.
PEACE: The U.S. Air Force's Wright Laboratory for their proposed "gay bomb," a chemical weapon to make enemy soldiers sexually attracted to each other.
NUTRITION: Brian Wansink, whose experiment with a bottomless bowl of soup showed that humans eat more when presented with more food.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
Baseball violence is getting out of hand.
It is time to eliminate harmful competition from our society.
We are a collective, and all of us are equal in every way.
Except for our leaders, of course.
And their friends.
Ummm...wrong thread!
I'll say! LOL.
*bookmarking to share at work later...*
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