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  • The 2006 IgNobel Prizes are out

    Science at it's finest!



    Some of the 2006 IgNobel winners:
    -- BIOLOGY - Bart Knols of Wageningen Agricultural University in the Netherlands, the National Institute for Medical Research in Tanzania and the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, Austria and colleague Ruurd de Jong for showing that the female Anopheles gambiae mosquito, which carries malaria, is attracted equally to the smell of limburger cheese and to the smell of human feet.
    "We have shown that three different Anopheles mosquito species prefer to bite different parts of a naked motionless volunteer and that this behavior is influenced by odors from those body regions," they wrote in their report, published in the Lancet medical journal in 1996.

    -- ORNITHOLOGY - Ivan Schwab of the University of California Davis, and the late Philip R.A. May of the University of California Los Angeles, for explaining why woodpeckers do not get headaches.

    -- NUTRITION - Wasmia Al-Houty of Kuwait University and Faten Al-Mussalam of the Kuwait Environment Public Authority, for showing that dung beetles are finicky eaters.

    -- PEACE - Howard Stapleton of Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, for inventing a teenager repellent -- a device that makes a high-pitched noise that is annoying to teenagers but inaudible to most adults; and for later using the technology to make cellphone ringtones that teenagers can hear but not their teachers.

    -- ACOUSTICS - D. Lynn Halpern, Randolph Blake and James Hillenbrand of Chicago's Northwestern University for a 1986 experiment aimed at discovering why the sound of fingernails scraping on a blackboard is so irritating.

    -- MEDICINE - Francis Fesmire of the University of Tennessee College of Medicine and the team of Majed Odeh, Harry Bassan and Arie Oliven of Bnai Zion Medical Center in Haifa, Israel who both published studies entitled "Termination of Intractable Hiccups with Digital Rectal Massage."

    -- MATHEMATICS - Nic Svenson and Piers Barnes of the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Research Organization, for calculating the number of shots a photographer must take to almost ensure that nobody in a group photo will have their eyes closed.
    Chuck
    秋音的爸爸

  • #2
    Digital Rectal Massage

    What ever happened to good, old fashioned, analog rectal massage?
    Yeah, well I'm gonna build my own lunar space lander! With blackjack aaaaannd Hookers! Actually, forget the space lander, and the blackjack. Ahhhh forget the whole thing!

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    • #3
      hehe. Either way would take my mind away from the hiccups for sure!
      FT.

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      • #4
        Some of the 2006 IgNobel winners:
        -- BIOLOGY - Bart Knols of Wageningen Agricultural University in the Netherlands, the National Institute for Medical Research in Tanzania and the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, Austria and colleague Ruurd de Jong for showing that the female Anopheles gambiae mosquito, which carries malaria, is attracted equally to the smell of limburger cheese and to the smell of human feet.
        "We have shown that three different Anopheles mosquito species prefer to bite different parts of a naked motionless volunteer and that this behavior is influenced by odors from those body regions," they wrote in their report, published in the Lancet medical journal in 1996.
        uhm okay, good to know

        -- ORNITHOLOGY - Ivan Schwab of the University of California Davis, and the late Philip R.A. May of the University of California Los Angeles, for explaining why woodpeckers do not get headaches.

        -- NUTRITION - Wasmia Al-Houty of Kuwait University and Faten Al-Mussalam of the Kuwait Environment Public Authority, for showing that dung beetles are finicky eaters.

        -- PEACE - Howard Stapleton of Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, for inventing a teenager repellent -- a device that makes a high-pitched noise that is annoying to teenagers but inaudible to most adults; and for later using the technology to make cellphone ringtones that teenagers can hear but not their teachers.
        Finaly an inventor , to bad that it isnt 100% functional

        -- ACOUSTICS - D. Lynn Halpern, Randolph Blake and James Hillenbrand of Chicago's Northwestern University for a 1986 experiment aimed at discovering why the sound of fingernails scraping on a blackboard is so irritating.
        They seems to be digging low after nominates.....

        -- MEDICINE - Francis Fesmire of the University of Tennessee College of Medicine and the team of Majed Odeh, Harry Bassan and Arie Oliven of Bnai Zion Medical Center in Haifa, Israel who both published studies entitled "Termination of Intractable Hiccups with Digital Rectal Massage."

        -- MATHEMATICS - Nic Svenson and Piers Barnes of the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Research Organization, for calculating the number of shots a photographer must take to almost ensure that nobody in a group photo will have their eyes closed.


        Okay, I actually thought it was a joke list at first
        If there's artificial intelligence, there's bound to be some artificial stupidity.

        Jeremy Clarkson "806 brake horsepower..and that on that limp wrist faerie liquid the Americans call petrol, if you run it on the more explosive jungle juice we have in Europe you'd be getting 850 brake horsepower..."

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        • #5
          start laughing, the biology guy is my boss' boss. kind of my supervisor as well...

          and yeah, that's actually quite important: malaria is the child-killer nr. 1 worldwide and there is not yet a good way to catch those mosquitoes.

          mfg
          wulfman
          "Perhaps they communicate by changing colour? Like those sea creatures .."
          "Lobsters?"
          "Really? I didn't know they did that."
          "Oh yes, red means help!"

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Wulfman
            start laughing, the biology guy is my boss' boss. kind of my supervisor as well...

            and yeah, that's actually quite important: malaria is the child-killer nr. 1 worldwide and there is not yet a good way to catch those mosquitoes.

            mfg
            wulfman
            It's a commercial plot to sell more Limburger cheese Are you sure a ripe Reblochon or Appenzeller isn't better?
            Brian (the devil incarnate)

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