Ig - Nobel Awards (Proof that Science can be fun)

[Cardinal Fang]

Saw this on the weekend and had a great laugh over some of the award winners. These are bona-fide studies that have taken place and funded for different motives ( I cannot even imagine what some of them might be). As noted on the website "The winners have all done things that first make people LAUGH, then make them THINK."

My personal favorites have to be:

ThePhysics award to the Australians for "An Analysis of the Forces Required to Drag Sheep over Various Surfaces."

and

The Biology award to the Dutch authors "for documenting the first scientifically recorded case of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard duck."

 

[Berlin]

Gay Qwacks ?

The Biology award to the Dutch authors "for documenting the first scientifically recorded case of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard duck."

No shit !!?!! FLMAO

 

[Hornet]

Great find Cardinal!

ThePhysics award to the Australians for "An Analysis of the Forces Required to Drag Sheep over Various Surfaces."

Yeah, and one of the guys in this one is none other then Robyn Williams.

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

Here's some other good ones:

CHEMISTRY
Yukio Hirose of Kanazawa University, for his chemical investigation of a bronze statue, in the city of Kanazawa, that fails to attract pigeons.

PHYSICS (from 2002)
Arnd Leike of the University of Munich, for demonstrating that beer froth obeys the mathematical Law of Exponential Decay.

INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH (from 2002)
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.