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October 01, 2010Whale Snot, Cursing Away Pain Among 2010 Ig NobelsSend by National GeographicThese are just a few of the unusual scientific achievements honored Thursday as 2010's Ig Nobel Prizes. The scientific celebration, hosted by the Annals of [...] Rating:  5 out of 5 starsRate up / Rate down |
October 01, 2010UPI NewsTrack Quirks In The NewsSend by UPI.comDr. Elena Bodnar, who won the Ig Nobel prize last year at Harvard University for her unusual but useful invention, said the emergency bra is available for [...] Rating: 5 out of 5 starsRate up / Rate down |
October 01, 2010Ig Nobel Awards To Honor World's Wackiest Researchers Tonight ...Posted by Zsolt FazakasThe 20th annual Ig Nobel Prizes will be awarded for 'achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think.' [...] Rating: 2 out of 5 starsRate up / Rate down |
October 01, 2010Winners Of The 2010 Ig Nobel Awards | The Daily Caller - Breaking ...Posted by Zsolt FazakasThe 2010 Ig Nobel winners, awarded Thursday at Harvard University by the Annals of Improbable Research magazine: ENGINEERING: Karina Acevedo-Whitehouse, Agnes. [...] Rating: 4 out of 5 starsRate up / Rate down |
October 01, 2010Ig Nobel Economics And Management PrizesPosted by Zsolt Fazakas| Peter Klein | Thanks to Stphane Saussier for reminding me that the 2010 Ig Nobel Prizes have been announced. The Economics award is a bit predictable: ECONOMICS PRIZE: The executives and directors of Goldman Sachs, AIG, Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch, and Magnetar for creating and p [...] Rating: 4 out of 5 starsRate up / Rate down |
October 01, 2010Porn And Oral Sex Healthy OfficialPosted by Zsolt FazakasNo, you read that title right: porn and oral sex are apparently just the thing men need to optimise their partners chances of getting pregnant. In his Bad Science column in the Guardian of September 25th, Ben Goldacre was talking about the controversial (not to me) provision of pornography in sperm [...] Rating: 4 out of 5 starsRate up / Rate down |
October 01, 2010Bat Sex, Whale Snot Studies Win Spoof Nobels - ABC News ...Posted by Zsolt FazakasThe mysteries of bat sex and whale snot, and an unusual way to deal with human pain were the focus of the annual tongue-in-cheek Ig Nobel Prizes. [...] Rating: 2 out of 5 starsRate up / Rate down |
October 01, 2010Whale Snot, Bat Sex Win 2010 IgNobel Spoof Prizes - Karameloo News ...Posted by Zsolt FazakasWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Researchers who used a remote-controlled helicopter to collect whale snot, documented bats having oral sex and showed that swearing makes you feel better when you stub a toe were among the winners of spoof IgNobel [...] Rating: 2 out of 5 starsRate up / Rate down |
October 01, 2010Ig Nobel Prizes: Fruit-Bat Fellatio And Other Crazy Science ...Posted by Zsolt FazakasCAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Fruit bats enjoy fellatio. Wearing socks on the outside of shoes prevents slipping and falling. Riding a roller coaster can relieve symptoms of asthma. [...] Rating: 3 out of 5 starsRate up / Rate down |
October 01, 2010Weird Science Honoured By 2010 Ig Nobel PrizesSend by rss.feedsportal.comWhale snot helicopter leads this year's pack The 20th annual Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded Thursday night for "achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think." Organised by the same people who produce Annals of Improbable Research, the prizes commemorate the world's funniest research, and sometimes the world's biggest villains (BP is a winner this year). Here's a list of the [...] Rating: 1 out of 5 starsRate up / Rate down |