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Author:  hifidelity2 [ Fri Sep 13, 2013 5:08 pm ]
Post subject:  Ig Nobel Prizes

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The full list of 2013 Ig Nobel winners:

Medicine Prize:
for assessing the effect of listening to opera on mice heart transplant patients.

Psychology Prize:
for confirming that people who think they are drunk also think they are more attractive.

Joint Prize in Biology and Astronomy:
for discovering that when dung beetles get lost, they can navigate their way home by looking at the milky way.

Safety Engineering Prize:
for inventing an electro-mechanical system to trap airplane hijackers. The system drops a hijacker through trap doors, seals him into a package, then drops the hijacker through the airplane's specially-installed bomb bay doors through which he is parachuted to the ground where police, having been alerted by radio, await his arrival.

Physics Prize:
for discovering that some people would be physically capable of running across the surface of a pond - if those people and that pond were on the Moon.

Chemistry Prize:
for discovering that the biochemical process by which onions make people cry is even more complicated than scientists previously realised.

Archaeology Prize:
for observing how the bones of a swallowed dead shrew dissolve inside the human digestive system.

Peace Prize:
Alexander Lukashenko, president of Belarus, for making it illegal to applaud in public, and to the Belarus State Police, for arresting a one-armed man for applauding.

Probability Prize:
for making two related discoveries: First, that the longer a cow has been lying down, the more likely that cow will soon stand up; and second, that once a cow stands up, you cannot easily predict how soon that cow will lie down again.

Public Health Prize:
for the medical techniques of penile re-attachment after amputations (often by jealous wives). Techniques which they recommend, except in cases where the amputated penis had been partially eaten by a duck.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24061992

Author:  Amnesia10 [ Fri Sep 13, 2013 5:24 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Ig Nobel Prizes

I have been doing the psychology research for twenty years and still nowhere near completion.

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Psychology Prize:
for confirming that people who think they are drunk also think they are more attractive.


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Probability Prize:
for making two related discoveries: First, that the longer a cow has been lying down, the more likely that cow will soon stand up; and second, that once a cow stands up, you cannot easily predict how soon that cow will lie down again.

Coming soon Cow Bingo. Will it lie down or will it stand up?

Author:  JJW009 [ Fri Sep 13, 2013 7:37 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Ig Nobel Prizes

The beetles one is actually really cool. It's amazing what insects achieve with tiny brains.

Author:  jonbwfc [ Fri Sep 13, 2013 9:09 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Ig Nobel Prizes

Amnesia10 wrote:
Coming soon Cow Bingo. Will it lie down or will it stand up?

Well thats easy. if its already standing up its going to lie down. Cow roulette would be a better game surely. Which cow is about to lie down/stand up?

Author:  Amnesia10 [ Fri Sep 13, 2013 11:09 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Ig Nobel Prizes

jonbwfc wrote:
Amnesia10 wrote:
Coming soon Cow Bingo. Will it lie down or will it stand up?

Well thats easy. if its already standing up its going to lie down. Cow roulette would be a better game surely. Which cow is about to lie down/stand up?

Yes but you could be doing it by the minute will Daisy be sitting down at 10.36am? or any 5 minute window.

JJW009 wrote:
The beetles one is actually really cool. It's amazing what insects achieve with tiny brains.

Yes that is cool, but I doubt that it will be that simple. Monarch butterflies have a weird breeding cycle with a super long life span butterfly every 5 years that does the migration. So there are many things out there that we do not know.

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