Tuesday, November 30, 2004

2004 Winners of the Ig® Nobel Prize

MEDICINE "The Effect of Country Music on Suicide."
PHYSICS "Coordination Modes in the Multisegmental Dynamics of Hula Hooping,"
PUBLIC HEALTH the scientific validity of the Five-Second Rule
CHEMISTRY a transparent form of water, which for precautionary reasons has been made unavailable to consumers.
ENGINEERING patenting the combover (U.S. Patent #4,022,227
LITERATUREThe American Nudist Research Library
PSYCHOLOGY demonstrating that when people pay close attention to something, it's all too easy to overlook anything else -- even a woman in a gorilla suit.
ECONOMICS outsourcing prayers to India.
PEACE for inventing karaoke, thereby providing an entirely new way for people to learn to tolerate each other.
BIOLOGY for showing that herrings apparently communicate by farting.

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