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Title: It was almost a month ago . . . and we missed it?
Post by: BlueStateSaint on October 10, 2013, 02:31:30 PM
The 2013 Ig Nobel Awards!

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MEDICINE PRIZE: Masateru Uchiyama [JAPAN], Xiangyuan Jin [CHINA, JAPAN], Qi Zhang [JAPAN], Toshihito Hirai [JAPAN], Atsushi Amano [JAPAN], Hisashi Bashuda [JAPAN] and Masanori Niimi [JAPAN, UK], for assessing the effect of listening to opera, on heart transplant patients who are mice.

PSYCHOLOGY PRIZE: Laurent Bègue [FRANCE], Brad Bushman [USA, UK, the NETHERLANDS, POLAND], Oulmann Zerhouni [FRANCE], Baptiste Subra [FRANCE], and Medhi Ourabah [FRANCE], for confirming, by experiment, that people who think they are drunk also think they are attractive.

JOINT PRIZE IN BIOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY: Marie Dacke [SWEDEN, AUSTRALIA], Emily Baird [SWEDEN, AUSTRALIA, GERMANY], Marcus Byrne [SOUTH AFRICA, UK], Clarke Scholtz [SOUTH AFRICA], and Eric J. Warrant [SWEDEN, AUSTRALIA, GERMANY], for discovering that when dung beetles get lost, they can navigate their way home by looking at the Milky Way.

SAFETY ENGINEERING PRIZE: The late Gustano Pizzo [USA], for inventing an electro-mechanical system to trap airplane hijackers — the system drops a hijacker through trap doors, seals him into a package, then drops the encapsulated hijacker through the airplane's specially-installed bomb bay doors, whence he parachutes to earth, where police, having been alerted by radio, await his arrival.

PHYSICS PRIZE: Alberto Minetti [ITALY, UK, DENMARK, SWITZERLAND], Yuri Ivanenko [ITALY, RUSSIA, FRANCE], Germana Cappellini [ITALY], Nadia Dominici [ITALY, SWITZERLAND], and Francesco Lacquaniti [ITALY], for discovering that some people would be physically capable of running across the surface of a pond — if those people and that pond were on the moon.

There's five more categories, but you have to go to the link.  The Peace prize is particularly . . . confusing.

http://www.improbable.com/ig/winners/
Title: Re: It was almost a month ago . . . and we missed it?
Post by: JohnnyReb on October 10, 2013, 02:44:14 PM
Where's Obama's Ignorant-Bellhop prize?
Title: Re: It was almost a month ago . . . and we missed it?
Post by: Dori on October 10, 2013, 03:46:41 PM
Quote from: JohnnyReb on October 10, 2013, 02:44:14 PM
Where's Obama's Ignorant-Bellhop prize?

 :rofl: :rofl:

[youtube=425,350]http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=jerry+lewis+movie+the+bellboy&FORM=VIRE2#view=detail&mid=772F0A2C33CB09798C35772F0A2C33CB09798C35[/youtube]
Title: Re: It was almost a month ago . . . and we missed it?
Post by: Airwolf on October 10, 2013, 11:21:47 PM
Quote from: JohnnyReb on October 10, 2013, 02:44:14 PM
Where's Obama's Ignorant-Bellhop prize?

Downstairs in the ladies room. Right next to the second place finishers at Top Gun.