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| From: Noserose (Original Message) | Sent: 10/3/2008 12:14 PM |
Formula for Ig Nobel fame: strippers and Coke Awards bestowed for serious studies of oddball scientific questions. This years winners are: Nutrition: Massimiliano Zampini and Charles Spence for demonstrating that food tastes better when it sounds better (report from The Guardian). Peace: The Swiss Federal Ethics Committee on Non-Human Biotechnology and the citizens of Switzerland for adopting the legal principle that plants have dignity. Archaeology: Astolfo Gomes de Mello Araujo and Jose Carlos Marcelino for showing armadillos can scramble the contents of an archaeological dig (report from Natural History). Biology: Marie-Christine Cadiergues, Christel Joubert and Michel Franc for discovering that fleas that live on a dog can jump higher than fleas that live on a cat. Medicine: Dan Ariely for demonstrating that expensive fake medicine is more effective than cheap fake medicine (report in Stanford GSB News). Cognitive science: Toshiyuki Nakagaki, Hiroyasu Yamada, Ryo Kobayashi, Atsushi Tero, Akio Ishiguro and Agota Toth for discovering that slime molds can solve puzzles (report in Math in the Media). Economics: Geoffrey Miller, Joshua Tyber and Brent Jordan for discovering that exotic dancers earn more when at peak fertility. Physics: Dorian Raymer and Douglas Smith for proving that heaps of string or hair will inevitably tangle. Chemistry: Sheree Umpierre, Joseph Hill and Deborah Anderson for discovering that Coca-Cola is an effective spermicide, and C.Y. Hong, C.C. Shieh, P. Wu and B.N. Chiang for proving it is not (report at Snopes.com). Literature: David Sims for his study �?A target=_top href="http://oss.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/26/11/1625">You Bastard: A Narrative Exploration of the Experience of Indignation within Organizations�?(report from The Boston Globe). http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26996167/ |
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