Past Winners:
http://improbable.com/ig/ig-pastwinners.html#ig2005 (http://improbable.com/ig/ig-pastwinners.html#ig2005)
Give it a go, some of the best stuff I ahve seen in years!
Pardon if posted before.
For exampe:
Winner in the catogory FLUID DYNAMICS
Victor Benno Meyer-Rochow (http://www.meyer-rochow.com/) of International University Bremen, Germany and the University of Oulu, Finland; and Jozsef Gal of Loránd Eötvös University, Hungary, for using basic principles of physics to calculate the pressure that builds up inside a penguin, as detailed (http://www.meyer-rochow.com/penguinqa.htm) in their report "Pressures Produced When Penguins Pooh -- Calculations on Avian Defaecation (http://flow.arrr.net/penguins.pdf)."
PUBLISHED IN: Polar Biology (http://www.springerlink.com/%28axnxn4jdb2qrxt45lsbqtunq%29/app/home/contribution.asp?referrer=parent&backto=issue,7,7;journal,22,113;linkingpublicationresults,1:100450,1), vol. 27, 2003, pp. 56-8.
ACCEPTING: The winners were unable to attend the ceremony because they could not obtain United States visas to visit the United States. Dr. Meyer-Rochow sent an acceptance speech (http://www.meyer-rochow.com/penguinpoo.htm) via video.
Had to bump this. The winners in 2007 are:
2007 - Aviation: Patricia V. Agostino, Santiago A. Plano and Diego A. Golombek, for discovering that hamsters recover from jetlag (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jetlag) more quickly when given Viagra (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viagra).[17] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ig_Nobel_Prize_winners#cite_note-16)[18] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ig_Nobel_Prize_winners#cite_note-17)
- Biology: Johanna E.M.H. van Bronswijk, for taking a census of all the mites (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mites) and other life forms that live in people's beds.[19] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ig_Nobel_Prize_winners#cite_note-18)
- Chemistry: Mayu Yamamoto for extracting vanilla flavour (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanillin) from cow dung.[20] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ig_Nobel_Prize_winners#cite_note-19)
- Economics: Kuo Cheng Hsieh, for patenting a device to catch bank robbers by ensnaring them in a net.[21] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ig_Nobel_Prize_winners#cite_note-20)
- Linguistics: Juan Manuel Toro, Josep B. Trobalon and Nuria Sebastian-Galles, for determining that rats sometimes can't distinguish between recordings of Japanese (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_language) and Dutch (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_language) played backward.[22] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ig_Nobel_Prize_winners#cite_note-21)
- Literature: Glenda Browne, for her study into indexing words that start with the word "the (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The)".[23] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ig_Nobel_Prize_winners#cite_note-22)
- Medicine: Dan Meyer and Brian Witcombe, for investigating the side-effects of swallowing swords (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sword_swallowing).[24] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ig_Nobel_Prize_winners#cite_note-23)
- Nutrition: Brian Wansink (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Wansink), for investigating people's appetite for mindless eating (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindless_eating) by secretly feeding them a self-refilling bowl of soup.[25] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ig_Nobel_Prize_winners#cite_note-24)
- Peace: The Air Force (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Air_Force) Wright Laboratory (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Air_Force_Research_Laboratory) in Dayton, Ohio (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright-Patterson_Air_Force_Base), for suggesting the research and development of a "gay bomb (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_bomb)," which would cause enemy troops to become sexually attracted to each other.
- Physics: L. Mahadevan and Enrique Cerda Villablanca for their theoretical study of how sheets become wrinkled[26] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ig_Nobel_Prize_winners#cite_note-25).
More here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ig_Nobel_Prize_winners)
WHY?? :roflmao: