The Ig Nobel price

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Past Winners:

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        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        in their report "Pressures        Produced When Penguins Pooh -- Calculations on Avian Defaecation."
      PUBLISHED IN: Polar        Biology, 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 via video.

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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 more quickly when given Viagra.[17][18]
  
• Biology: Johanna E.M.H. van Bronswijk, for taking a census of all the mites and other life forms that live in people's beds.[19]
  
• Chemistry: Mayu Yamamoto for extracting vanilla flavour from cow dung.[20]
  
• Economics: Kuo Cheng Hsieh, for patenting a device to catch bank robbers by ensnaring them in a net.[21]
  
• Linguistics: Juan Manuel Toro, Josep B. Trobalon and Nuria Sebastian-Galles, for determining that rats sometimes can't distinguish between recordings of Japanese and Dutch played backward.[22]
  
• Literature: Glenda Browne, for her study into indexing words that start with the word "the".[23]
  
• Medicine: Dan Meyer and Brian Witcombe, for investigating the side-effects of swallowing swords.[24]
  
• Nutrition: Brian Wansink, for investigating people's appetite for mindless eating by secretly feeding them a self-refilling bowl of soup.[25]
  
• Peace: The Air Force Wright Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio, for suggesting the research and development of a "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].

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