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GAY BOMB, CURE FOR HAMSTER JET LAG WINS IG NOBEL PRIZES
BBC - Pioneering research into a "gay bomb" that makes enemy troops
"sexually irresistible" to each other has scooped one of this year's Ig
Nobel Prizes.
Other winners included work on treating hamster jetlag with impotency
drugs, extracting vanilla from cow dung, and the side-effects of sword
swallowing.
The awards, founded in 1991, mark achievements that "first make people
laugh, and then make them think. . .
Genuine Nobel Laureates handed out the much-coveted awards to the
winners, who took away no cash, but instead received a hand-made prize,
a certificate, and, of course, the glory of such an illustrious win.
Dan Meyer, executive director of Sword Swallowing Association
International and an author of the British Medical Journal paper Sword
Swallowing and its Side-Effects, told the BBC News website that the
study revealed that when professional sword swallowers ingested a single
sword very carefully, it did not do much harm, but swallowing many
swords, strangely shaped blades, or being distracted when swallowing,
could cause injury. The findings also suggested that sword swallowers
should not swallow swords if they already had a sore throat, he said.
Unfortunately, said the organizers, nobody from the US military who
carried out the research on chemicals that could prompt homosexual
dalliances amongst rival troops (a research project called Harassing,
Annoying and "Bad Guy" Identifying Chemicals) attended the ceremony
because the study's authors could not be tracked down.
The Ig Nobel Prizes were created by the Annals of Improbable Research, a
science magazine.
Other winners:
Physics - A US-Chile team who ironed out the problem of how sheets
become wrinkled.
Linguistics - A University of Barcelona team for showing that rats are
unable to tell the difference between a person speaking Japanese
backwards and somebody speaking Dutch backwards.
Literature - Glenda Browne of Blue Mountains, Australia, for her study
of the word "the", and how it can flummox those trying to put things
into alphabetical order.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7026150.stm
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GAY BOMB, CURE FOR HAMSTER JET LAG WINS IG NOBEL PRIZES
BBC - Pioneering research into a "gay bomb" that makes enemy troops
"sexually irresistible" to each other has scooped one of this year's Ig
Nobel Prizes.
Other winners included work on treating hamster jetlag with impotency
drugs, extracting vanilla from cow dung, and the side-effects of sword
swallowing.
The awards, founded in 1991, mark achievements that "first make people
laugh, and then make them think. . .
Genuine Nobel Laureates handed out the much-coveted awards to the
winners, who took away no cash, but instead received a hand-made prize,
a certificate, and, of course, the glory of such an illustrious win.
Dan Meyer, executive director of Sword Swallowing Association
International and an author of the British Medical Journal paper Sword
Swallowing and its Side-Effects, told the BBC News website that the
study revealed that when professional sword swallowers ingested a single
sword very carefully, it did not do much harm, but swallowing many
swords, strangely shaped blades, or being distracted when swallowing,
could cause injury. The findings also suggested that sword swallowers
should not swallow swords if they already had a sore throat, he said.
Unfortunately, said the organizers, nobody from the US military who
carried out the research on chemicals that could prompt homosexual
dalliances amongst rival troops (a research project called Harassing,
Annoying and "Bad Guy" Identifying Chemicals) attended the ceremony
because the study's authors could not be tracked down.
The Ig Nobel Prizes were created by the Annals of Improbable Research, a
science magazine.
Other winners:
Physics - A US-Chile team who ironed out the problem of how sheets
become wrinkled.
Linguistics - A University of Barcelona team for showing that rats are
unable to tell the difference between a person speaking Japanese
backwards and somebody speaking Dutch backwards.
Literature - Glenda Browne of Blue Mountains, Australia, for her study
of the word "the", and how it can flummox those trying to put things
into alphabetical order.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7026150.stm
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