[LINK] [off topic] Weekend light reading - The Ig Nobels

[Rick Welykochy]

This is totally off topic and totally amusing: the Ig Nobel Prize winners,
as reported on Radio National this evening.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ig_Nobel_Prize_winners


Interdisciplinary research:
   Josiah S. Carberry, for his work in psychoceramics, the study of "cracked pots."

Peace:
   Presented to the Taiwan National Parliament, for demonstrating that politicians
   gain more by punching, kicking and gouging each other than by waging war against other nations.

Sociology:
   Presented to Steve Penfold, of York University in Toronto, for doing his Ph.D.
   thesis on the history of Canadian donut shops.

Computer Science:
   Presented to Chris Niswander of Tucson, Arizona, for inventing PawSense, software
   that detects when a cat is walking across your computer keyboard.

and so forth.

Sixteen years of top-notch, hilarious and thought provoking reasearch.


cheers
rickw



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