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Harvard's Mock Nobel Winners, Ten chosen for this year's "Ig Nobel Prize" |
 Oct 5 2007, 08:53 AM
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The winners
Medicine Brian Witcombe of Gloucester and Dan Meyer of Antioch, Tennessee, for their report in the British Medical Journal, Sword Swallowing and its Side-Effects Physics L Mahadevan of Harvard and Enrique Cerda Villablanca of Santiago University, Chile, for studying how sheets become wrinkled Biology Johanna van Bronswijk of Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands, for a census of the mites, insects, spiders, pseudoscorpions, crustaceans, bacteria, algae, ferns and fungi with whom we share our beds Chemistry Mayu Yamamoto of the International Medical Centre of Japan, for developing a way to extract vanilla essence from cow dung Linguistics Juant Manuel Toro, Josep Trobalon and Núria Sebastián-Gallés, of Barcelona University, for showing that rats cannot tell the difference between a person speaking Japanese backwards and a person speaking Dutch backwards Literature Glenda Browne of Australia, for her study of the word "the" and the problems it causes when indexing Peace The Air Force Wright Laboratory, Dayton, Ohio, for instigating research on a chemical weapon to make enemy soldiers sexually irresistible to each other Nutrition Brian Wansink of Cornell University, for exploring the seemingly boundless appetites of human beings by feeding them with a self-refilling, bottomless bowl of soup Economics Kuo Cheng Hsieh, of Taiwan, for patenting a device that catches bank robbers by dropping a net over them Aviation Patricia V Agostino, Santiago A Plano and Diego A Golombek of Argentina, for the discovery that Viagra aids jetlag recovery in hamsters Z -------------------- Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one should be silent.
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Oct 5 2007, 03:36 PM
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 Who's your Daddy? Group: Moderator Posts: 2,159 Joined: 13-August 07 From: Tampa Bay Area, Florida, USA Member No.: 11 |
Whoa!
There's some serious thinkers solving some major world problems! 
-------------------- I know you think you understand what you thought I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant!  |
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Oct 5 2007, 08:57 PM
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 Venting Addict Group: Members Posts: 612 Joined: 21-September 07 From: 1AU from a G2V Star Member No.: 81 |
Yep , since all the other world problems have been solved
 , it about time they did something to help with "jetlag recovery in hamsters" 
-------------------- "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." "Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster"    |
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Oct 5 2007, 09:28 PM
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 Mods and Rockers Group: Moderator Posts: 1,239 Joined: 13-August 07 From: West of the Empire State Building Member No.: 16 |
QUOTE Linguistics Juant Manuel Toro, Josep Trobalon and Núria Sebastián-Gallés, of Barcelona University, for showing that rats cannot tell the difference between a person speaking Japanese backwards and a person speaking Dutch backwards Does any one know if any of the previous genius' won for proving the rats could understand both languages normally?? |
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Oct 8 2007, 01:36 PM
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Please please tell me that taxpayers hard earned dollars didn't pay for these studies!!!
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