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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: aldo_14 on March 09, 2005, 08:46:50 am

Title: The (Ig) Nobel prize
Post by: aldo_14 on March 09, 2005, 08:46:50 am

http://www.improbable.com/ig/ig-pastwinners.html

For example;
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PHYSICS
Jack Harvey, John Culvenor, Warren Payne, Steve Cowley, Michael Lawrance, David Stuart, and Robyn Williams of Australia, for their irresistible report "An Analysis of the Forces Required to Drag Sheep over Various Surfaces."[/i]
[PUBLISHED IN: Applied Ergonomics, vol. 33, no. 6, November 2002, pp. 523-31. A copy can be downloaded from http://www.culvenor.com/]
WHO ATTENDED THE IG NOBEL CEREMONY: John Culvenor.
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Good to know these things are rewarded :D

Title: The (Ig) Nobel prize
Post by: BlackDove on March 09, 2005, 08:57:33 am

:lol:

Title: The (Ig) Nobel prize
Post by: vyper on March 09, 2005, 10:02:52 am

Sponsored by Aberdeen FC.

Title: The (Ig) Nobel prize
Post by: karajorma on March 09, 2005, 01:27:51 pm

First person to say something bad about Troy Hurtubise gets a Jay and Silent Bob style visit/arsekicking. :)

Apart from that there are some very funny things on there. :)

Title: The (Ig) Nobel prize
Post by: Black Wolf on March 09, 2005, 02:24:03 pm

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INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH
Karl Kruszelnicki of The University of Sydney, for performing a comprehensive survey of human belly button lint (http://www.abc.net.au/science/k2/lint/results.htm) -- who gets it, when, what color, and how much.

This one guy made the IgNobel awards famous in Australia. Dr Karl is a legend, and well deserved even more recognition than he already got :)

Title: The (Ig) Nobel prize
Post by: phreak on March 09, 2005, 04:42:49 pm

COMPUTER SCIENCE
Chris Niswander of Tucson, Arizona, for inventing PawSense, software that detects when a cat is walking across your computer keyboard.


http://www.bitboost.com/pawsense/

Title: The (Ig) Nobel prize
Post by: Gortef on March 10, 2005, 03:11:17 am

Good to know that people can still find interesting and important subjects to research

Title: The (Ig) Nobel prize
Post by: Carl on March 10, 2005, 04:16:45 am

like this one: http://www.zoology.ubc.ca/%7Ebwilson/herring.html