Ig Nobel awards for 2006
October 12, 2006
The 2006 Ig Nobel Prize winners have been announced in a ceremony at Harvard University: Nic Sevenson and Piers Barnes of the CSIRO for research into the number of photographs you must take to ensure that nobody in a group photo will have their eyes closed.
They beat others to the award ("no cash, but much cachet"), who had researched topics such as:
- Why woodpeckers don’t get headaches.
- Dung beetles are picky eaters.
- An electromechanical teenager repellent: a device that makes the most annoying noise audible to teenagers but not to adults (that project later diversified to developing ringtones audible to teenagers but not to their teachers).
- Consequences of Erudite Vernacular Utilized Irrespective of Necessity: problems with using long words needlessly.
- Why, when you bend dry spaghetti, it often breaks into more than two pieces.
The Ig Nobels are designed to inspire and educate about science (while making people laugh!).
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