Important inventions and discoveries

[Silat]

The 2006 Ig Nobel winners, awarded Thursday:

ORNITHOLOGY -- The late Philip R.A. May and Ivan R. Schwab, for exploring and explaining why wooddonuts don't get headaches.
NUTRITION -- Wasmia Al-Houty and Faten Al-Mussalam, for showing that dung beetles are finicky about dung.
ACOUSTICS -- D. Lynn Halpern, Randolph Blake and James Hillenbrand, for their experiments on why people dislike the sound of fingernails on a chalkboard.
MATHEMATICS -- Nic Svenson and Piers Barnes, for calculating the number of photographs you must take to ensure nobody in a group photo has their eyes closed.
LITERATURE -- Daniel Oppenheimer, for his report "Consequences of Erudite Vernacular Utilized Irrespective of Necessity: Problems with Using Long Words Needlessly."
MEDICINE -- Francis M. Fesmire, for his medical case report "Termination of Intractable Hiccups with Digital Rectal Massage"; and Majed Odeh, Harry Bassan and Arie Oliven for their subsequent medical case report.
PHYSICS -- Basile Audoly and Sebastien Neukirch, for their insights into why dry spaghetti often breaks into more than two pieces when bent.
CHEMISTRY -- Antonio Mulet, Jose Javier Benedito, Jose Bon and
Carmen Rossello, for their study "Ultrasonic Velocity in Cheddar Cheese as Affected by Temperature."
BIOLOGY -- Bart Knols and Ruurd de Jong, for showing that female malaria mosquitoes are attracted equally to the smell of Limburger cheese and to the smell of human feet.


My favorite:
PEACE -- Howard Stapleton, for inventing a teenager repellent, an electronic device that makes an annoying noise audible to teenagers but not adults.

Guppys favorite:
MEDICINE -- Francis M. Fesmire, for his medical case report "Termination of Intractable Hiccups with Digital Rectal Massage"; and Majed Odeh, Harry Bassan and Arie Oliven for their subsequent medical case report.





-- The Associated Press  http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/10/05/ignobels.ap/index.html

[skernsk]

Don't Nobel winners also get a million bucks?

Jeez, I could have gotten a million bucks to make up some BS about why spaghetti breaks into more than two pieces when bent?

[DREDIOCK]

Dont ya just love the lag on this site sometimes LOL

[Nilsen]

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[john9001]

it is not the Nobel prize.  it is the Ig Nobel prize and i don't think it pays anything.

"Ig Nobel, the annual award given at Harvard University by Annals of Improbable Research magazine for weird, wacky and sometimes worthless scientific research."

[fuzeman]

Originally posted by Silat
The 2006 Ig Nobel winners, awarded Thursday:

PEACE -- Howard Stapleton, for inventing a teenager repellent, an electronic device that makes an annoying noise audible to teenagers but not adults.

-- The Associated Press  http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/10/05/ignobels.ap/index.html

This one sure isn't worthless!!!!!

Patent and sell that one and you'll be richer than Bill Gates in a year.

[lukster]

Imagine if these "scientists" focused on developing an alternative energy source. We'd have something like:

Walking proven to be more energy efficient than driving.