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  • Ig Nobel Prizes

    Everyone hears about the winners of the Nobel Prize, but what about those lesser-known researchers whose efforts don't rise to the same level? This gap is filled by the "Ig Nobel Prize." See this link for a list of current and past winners, plus a description of the research that brought them this prize.

    Here's a summary of current (2006) winners:

    ORNITHOLOGY: For exploring and explaining why woodpeckers don't get headaches.

    NUTRITION: For showing that dung beetles are finicky eaters.

    PEACE: For inventing an electromechanical teenager repellant -- a device that makes annoying noise designed to be audible to teenagers but not to adults; and for later using that same technology to make telephone ringtones that are audible to teenagers but not to their teachers.

    ACOUSTICS: For conducting experiments to learn why people dislike the sound of fingernails scraping on a blackboard.

    MATHEMATICS: For calculating the number of photographs you must take to (almost) ensure that nobody in a group photo will have their eyes closed

    LITERATURE: For the report "Consequences of Erudite Vernacular Utilized Irrespective of Necessity: Problems with Using Long Words Needlessly."

    MEDICINE: For the medical case report "Termination of Intractable Hiccups with Digital Rectal Massage".

    PHYSICS: For insights into why, when you bend dry spaghetti, it often breaks into more than two pieces.

    CHEMISTRY: For the study "Ultrasonic Velocity in Cheddar Cheese as Affected by Temperature."

    BIOLOGY: For showing that the female malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae is attracted equally to the smell of limburger cheese and to the smell of human feet.
    "The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote."
    -- Kosh

  • #2
    Re: Ig Nobel Prizes

    Originally posted by Petek
    PEACE: For inventing an electromechanical teenager repellant -- a device that makes annoying noise designed to be audible to teenagers but not to adults; and for later using that same technology to make telephone ringtones that are audible to teenagers but not to their teachers.
    This one can't be real...
    Unbelievable!

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    • #3
      Re: Re: Ig Nobel Prizes

      Originally posted by Darius871
      This one can't be real...
      It's a real invention, I read a BBC article about it. Apparently as people age their ear bones solidify or something, and don't transmit vibrations the same way, and so they can't hear particular frequencies, or something.
      THEY!!111 OMG WTF LOL LET DA NOMADS AND TEH S3D3NTARY PEOPLA BOTH MAEK BITER AXP3REINCES
      AND TEH GRAAT SINS OF THERE [DOCTRINAL] INOVATIONS BQU3ATH3D SMAL
      AND!!1!11!!! LOL JUST IN CAES A DISPUTANT CALS U 2 DISPUT3 ABOUT THEYRE CLAMES
      DO NOT THAN DISPUT3 ON THEM 3XCAPT BY WAY OF AN 3XTARNAL DISPUTA!!!!11!! WTF

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      • #4
        Re: Re: Ig Nobel Prizes

        Originally posted by Darius871


        This one can't be real...
        It's definitely real. There was actually a story about it in my local newspaper a few months ago.

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        • #5
          It's the most useful one.
          Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
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          He also hates Texans and Australians, he does diversify." ~ Braindead

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          • #6
            Re: Re: Ig Nobel Prizes

            Originally posted by Darius871


            This one can't be real...
            Nonetheless, see here.
            "The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote."
            -- Kosh

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            • #7
              Indeed it is, pretty cool.

              Btw there's an example up on youtube:

              Unbelievable!

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              • #8
                Re: Ig Nobel Prizes

                Originally posted by Petek
                ORNITHOLOGY: For exploring and explaining why woodpeckers don't get headaches.
                Why?

                Edit: Seriously; I find this interesting!... poor me
                bleh

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                • #9
                  LITERATURE: For the report "Consequences of Erudite Vernacular Utilized Irrespective of Necessity: Problems with Using Long Words Needlessly."

                  MEDICINE: For the medical case report "Termination of Intractable Hiccups with Digital Rectal Massage".

                  PHYSICS: For insights into why, when you bend dry spaghetti, it often breaks into more than two pieces.

                  CHEMISTRY: For the study "Ultrasonic Velocity in Cheddar Cheese as Affected by Temperature."

                  BIOLOGY: For showing that the female malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae is attracted equally to the smell of limburger cheese and to the smell of human feet.


                  These last 5 sound invaluable.

                  Well OK, the Biology one is a little iffy, but it confirms a suspicion.
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