Ig Nobel Prizes and my Birthday
Tomorrow (sat 28th feb) at 10 am, I am turning the big 25...woop-de-do!?
The party is being held at 8th March, probably on top of Mt Gravatt, starting at about 3.
And now onto the more fun section of the night - The IG NOBEL Awards for 2008
Medicine: Dan Ariely for demonstrating that highpriced fake medicine is more effective than lowpriced fake medicine.
Physics: Dorian Raymer and Douglas Smith for mathematically demonstrating that heaps of hair or string or pretty much anything else will inevitably tangle themselves in knots.
Biology: Marie-Christine Cadiergues, Christel Joubert and Michel Franc for discovering that the fleas living on a dog can jump higher than the fleas living on a cat.
Chemistry: Sharee Umpierre, Joseph Hill and Deborah Anderson, for discovering that Coca-Cola is an effective spermicide, and Chuang-Ye Hong, C.C. Shieh, P. Wu and B.N. Chiang for discovering that it is not.
Nutrition: Massimiliano Zampini and Charles Spence for electronically modifying the sound a potato chip makes so the person chewing the chip believes it is crisper and fresher than it really is.
Cognitive Science: Toshiyuki Nakagaki, Hiroyasu Yamada, Ryo Kobayashi, Atsushi Tero, Akio Ishiguro and Ágotá Tóth for discovering that slime molds can solve puzzles.
Peace: The Swiss Federal Ethics Committee on Non-Human Biotechnology (ECNH) and the citizens of Switzerland for adopting the legal principle that plants have dignity.
Archaeology: Astolfo G. Mello Araujo and José Carlos Marcelino for measuring how the actions of a live armadillo can scramble the contents of an archaeological dig.
Economics: Miller, Joshua Tybur and Brent Jordan for discovering that a lap dancer's ovulatory cycle affects her tip earnings.
The party is being held at 8th March, probably on top of Mt Gravatt, starting at about 3.
And now onto the more fun section of the night - The IG NOBEL Awards for 2008
Medicine: Dan Ariely for demonstrating that highpriced fake medicine is more effective than lowpriced fake medicine.
Physics: Dorian Raymer and Douglas Smith for mathematically demonstrating that heaps of hair or string or pretty much anything else will inevitably tangle themselves in knots.
Biology: Marie-Christine Cadiergues, Christel Joubert and Michel Franc for discovering that the fleas living on a dog can jump higher than the fleas living on a cat.
Chemistry: Sharee Umpierre, Joseph Hill and Deborah Anderson, for discovering that Coca-Cola is an effective spermicide, and Chuang-Ye Hong, C.C. Shieh, P. Wu and B.N. Chiang for discovering that it is not.
Nutrition: Massimiliano Zampini and Charles Spence for electronically modifying the sound a potato chip makes so the person chewing the chip believes it is crisper and fresher than it really is.
Cognitive Science: Toshiyuki Nakagaki, Hiroyasu Yamada, Ryo Kobayashi, Atsushi Tero, Akio Ishiguro and Ágotá Tóth for discovering that slime molds can solve puzzles.
Peace: The Swiss Federal Ethics Committee on Non-Human Biotechnology (ECNH) and the citizens of Switzerland for adopting the legal principle that plants have dignity.
Archaeology: Astolfo G. Mello Araujo and José Carlos Marcelino for measuring how the actions of a live armadillo can scramble the contents of an archaeological dig.
Economics: Miller, Joshua Tybur and Brent Jordan for discovering that a lap dancer's ovulatory cycle affects her tip earnings.