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It's my favorite time of the year - the Ig Nobel Prize awards have been announced!
As BBC News explains, "The aim of the awards is to honour achievements that "first make people laugh and then make them think." Most of the awards do, indeed, make me giggle when I read about them.
How, for instance, does someone even begin to THINK of a bra that can be turned into two gas masks? A team from Chicago did, winning them the Ig Nobel for Public Health.
In Mexico, they've found a new use for tequila - making diamonds. Score a Ig Nobel in Chemistry for them!
If you've ever wondered how pregnant women manage not to topple over, never fear - a team of scientists collected the Ig Nobel for Physics by analyzing this phenomenon.
I am a VERY patient woman, but I'm not sure I am as patient as Donald Unger of California, winner of the Ig Nobel in Medicine. For 60 years straight he cracked the knuckles on only one hand to see if it truly could cause arthritis.
Dairies everywhere will be breaking out the baby name books, after the Veterinary Science winners showed that named cows give more milk.
Got some giant panda feces handy? Extract the bacteria and throw it on your kitchen garbage, and just watch as 90% of the garbage is reduced. That's the conclusion of the Biology winners, at least.
Awards were also given out for:
- Peace (Better to be hit with a full or empty beer bottle?)
- Economics (Imagine - tiny banks can be turned into big banks!)
- Literature (Traffic tickets given to a person whose name means Driving License)
- Mathematics (Zimbabwe - bringing bank note printing to a new level).
What's your favorite award out of the bunch? Do you have a favorite past winner?
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