chrismoyles.net
- Tue Oct 07, 2003 4:30 pm
#123667
On the bbc website, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3161694.stm they've mentioned the Ig Nobel awards, a spoof on the real Nobel Prize but interesting too.
The Igs aim to recognise achievements which "cannot, or should not, be reproduced". This year someone who proved taxi drivers had larger hippocampus' than most people and a man who has fought for 18 years to prove he's alive.
Some of the previous winners are just weird. For example :
Biology: CW Moeliker from the Netherlands for documenting the first scientifically recorded case of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard duck.
http://www.nmr.nl/deins815.htm
Riiiight. Nice to know that ALL aspects of science are investigated.
The Igs aim to recognise achievements which "cannot, or should not, be reproduced". This year someone who proved taxi drivers had larger hippocampus' than most people and a man who has fought for 18 years to prove he's alive.
Some of the previous winners are just weird. For example :
Biology: CW Moeliker from the Netherlands for documenting the first scientifically recorded case of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard duck.
http://www.nmr.nl/deins815.htm
Riiiight. Nice to know that ALL aspects of science are investigated.
