2007 Ig Nobles: sword swallowing hamsters on Viagra and cross-referencing confusion
Kes: Part of me wants to get my hands on that military report on the gay bomb so I can try to write the fan fic--there should be fan fic. Hell, there should be a musical, a sort of "Dr. Strangelove" meets "Rocky Horror" epic with songs and dancing and a special guest appearance by Sweet.
The 2007 Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded on Thursday evening, October 4, at the 17th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, at Harvard's Sanders Theatre. You
can watch archived video of the live webcast and find more info at
http://www.improbable.com .
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.
ECONOMICS: Kuo Cheng Hsieh for patenting a device that drops a net over bank robbers.
AVIATION: Patricia Agostino, Santiago Plano and Diego Golombek for discovering that hamsters recover from jet lag faster when given Viagra.
The 2007 Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded on Thursday evening, October 4, at the 17th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, at Harvard's Sanders Theatre. You
can watch archived video of the live webcast and find more info at
http://www.improbable.com .
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.
ECONOMICS: Kuo Cheng Hsieh for patenting a device that drops a net over bank robbers.
AVIATION: Patricia Agostino, Santiago Plano and Diego Golombek for discovering that hamsters recover from jet lag faster when given Viagra.