The Ig Nobel awards for this year were given out on the 30th of last month at Harward's Sanders Theatre. Listed below are some of the award winning entries.
- Medicine: The report on "The Effect of Country Music on Suicide".
- Physics: For exploring and explaining the dynamics of hula-hooping.
- Engineering: For patenting the combover hair styling technique.
- Economics: Awarded to the Vatican for outsourcing prayers to India.
- Biology: For discovering that herrings apparently communicate by farting.
1 comment:
Help me, I'm dying of laughter!! The outsourcing thing was especially funny. I can just imagine prayers being intoned in mallu for dead americans and the church-goers listening solemnly. lolz!!
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