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Ig Nobel Winners '06

Acoustics
Lynn Halpern, Randolph Blake, James Hillenbrand for experiments to learn why people dislike the sound of fingernails on a chalkboard.

Biology
Bart Knols, Ruurd de Jong for showing female malaria mosquitoes are attracted equally to the smell of Limburger heese and smell of human feet.

Chemistry
Antonio Mulet, Jose Javier Benedito, Jose Bon, Carmen Rossello, for their study on cheese and temperature.

Literature
Daniel Oppenheimer for his report 'Consequences of Erudite Vernacular Utilised Irrespective of Necessity' - Problems with Using Long Words Needlessly.

Mathematics
Nic Svenson, Piers Barnes, for calculating number of photographs needed to ensure that nobody in a group photo will have their eyes closed.

Medicine
Francis Fesmire ++ for report "Termination of Intractable hiccups with digital rectal massage".

Nutrition
Wasmia al-Houty and Faten al-Mussalam, for showing that dung beetles have preferences.

Ornithology
late Philip May, Ivan Schwab for explaining why woodpeckers do not get headaches.

Peace
Howard Stapleton, inventing a teenager repellent.

Physics
Basile Audoly, Sebastien Neukirch, for finding out why spaghetti often breaks into more than two pieces when bent.

"interesting day" though more people know about 'it' now. stayed back after befrienders' dance to help out house directorate, watched basketball and went home with kelvin and songjie. school was as boring as yesterday. walking out from school, the air was so bad till i got home and realised the air here was so cooling and yadayada.
(1) it was like two different worlds
(2) the people in indonesia must be having it bad ):

kmli blogged at 10/10/2006 08:55:00 PM

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