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October 07, 2005

And the IgNominee is...

Once more, it is the time of year when prizes are awarded to those who advance science, culture and art. The Ig®Nobel prize was created by the Annals of Improbable Research (AIR) and acknowledges actual scientific "achievements that cannot or should not be reproduced."

Some of this years winners include:

MEDICINE: Gregg A. Miller of Oak Grove, Missouri, USA. For inventing Neuticles - artificial replacement dog testicles, which are available in three sizes, and three degrees of firmness.

PEACE: Claire Rind and Peter Simmons of Newcastle University, UK. For electrically monitoring the activity of a brain cell in a locust while that locust was watching selected highlights from the movie "Star Wars."

FLUID DYNAMICS: Victor Benno Meyer-Rochow of International University Bremen, Germany and the University of Oulu , Finland; and Jozsef Gal of Loránd Eötvös University, Hungary. For using basic principles of physics to calculate the pressure that builds up inside a penguin, as detailed in their report "Pressures Produced When Penguins Pooh -- Calculations on Avian Defaecation."

And those are simply some of the many. The complete list of recipients and reasons are available here.

Scrawled illegibly by Meathe at October 7, 2005 10:39 AM

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