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Offline aldo_14

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The (Ig) Nobel prize
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

 

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Offline Black Wolf

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INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH
Karl Kruszelnicki of The University of Sydney, for performing a comprehensive survey of human belly button lint -- 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 :)
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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/
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Good to know that people can still find interesting and important subjects to research
Habeeb it...

  

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