Comments | sunnydale47: Cure for a headache

sunnydale47

Cure for a headache

Oct 07, 2006 18:35

The 2006 winners of the Ig Nobel prize have been announced!

The ornithology prize went to Ivan R. Schwab of UC Davis for an article published in the British Journal of Ophthalmology that beginsSometimes it seems that you are simply banging your head against a brick wall, as the frustrations of contemporary life seem to conspire against you. For us ( Read more... )

humor, science, birds

Comments 7

mactavish October 7 2006, 22:36:56 UTC

Can you tell birdlovers? ;)

sunnydale47 October 9 2006, 18:37:24 UTC

That's a great idea! I haven't had time to be involved with communities, and I forgot about that. Thanks for the reminder!

cjsmith October 7 2006, 22:49:31 UTC

basically boils down to several forms of cushioning, and a small brain.

That's it! People who suffer from headaches have brains that are too big. :-)

mactavish October 7 2006, 22:51:57 UTC

But I get belly aches, and my belly's well cushioned. :)

sunnydale47 October 9 2006, 18:39:03 UTC

Well, if you're going to bang your head against a tree -- or a brick wall -- it does help to do it with a smaller mass....

;-)

hitchhiker October 9 2006, 16:14:19 UTC

i'm amazed it never occurred to me to wonder about that. i love scientists!

sunnydale47 October 9 2006, 18:25:26 UTC

Actually, I have wondered about that! When eudyptes and I used to go birding together we sometimes talked about that very question, as well as wondering how they can move their heads so darn fast! We can't voluntarily move any of our body parts 20 times a second, let alone our whole heads!

Humans may have opposable thumbs and sophisticated language, but that's because we'd never survive any other way!