Ig Nobel 2009 Result is out! Please have a look!

hyree_hybrid

"Research that makes people LAUGH, and then THINK."

Itulah slogan bagi acara tahunan Ig Nobel Prize. Jangan disalah-ertikan dengan Nobel Prize; Ig Nobel adalah parodi kepada award berprestij tersebut, tetapi untuk kajian dan penemuan yang gila2 dan mengarut bagi orang kebiasaan. Yang penting, ia benar2 wujud, malah majlis penyampaiannya seringkali disertai oleh pemenang2 Nobel Prize!

With that I paste here the list of category and their winners!

Veterinary medicine: Catherine Douglas and Peter Rowlinson of Newcastle University, UK, for showing that cows with names give more milk than cows that are nameless.

Peace: Stephan Bolliger, Steffen Ross, Lars Oesterhelweg, Michael Thali and Beat Kneubuehl of the University of Bern, Switzerland, for determining whether it is better to be smashed over the head with a full bottle of beer or with an empty bottle.

Biology: Fumiaki Taguchi, Song Guofu and Zhang Guanglei of Kitasato University Graduate School of Medical Sciences in Sagamihara, Japan, for demonstrating that kitchen refuse can be reduced more than 90% in mass by using bacteria extracted from the faeces of giant pandas.

Medicine: Donald L Unger of Thousand Oaks, California, US, for investigating a possible cause of arthritis of the fingers, by diligently cracking the knuckles of his left hand but not his right hand every day for more than 60 years.

Economics: The directors, executives, and auditors of four Icelandic banks for demonstrating that tiny banks can be rapidly transformed into huge banks, and vice versa (and for demonstrating that similar things can be done to an entire national economy).

Physics: Katherine K Whitcome of the University of Cincinnati, Daniel E Lieberman of Harvard University and Liza J Shapiro of the University of Texas, all in the US, for analytically determining why pregnant women do not tip over.

Chemistry: Javier Morales, Miguel Apatiga and Victor M Castano of Universidad Nacional Autonoma in Mexico, for creating diamonds from tequila.

Literature: Ireland's police service for writing and presenting more than 50 traffic tickets to the most frequent driving offender in the country - Prawo Jazdy - whose name in Polish means "Driving Licence".:re:

Public Health: Elena N Bodnar, Raphael C Lee, and Sandra Marijan of Chicago, US, for inventing a bra that can be quickly converted into a pair of gas masks - one for the wearer and one to be given to a needy bystander.

Mathematics: Gideon Gono, governor of Zimbabwe's Reserve Bank, for giving people a simple, everyday way to cope with a wide range of numbers by having his bank print notes with denominations ranging from one cent to one hundred trillion dollars.

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Sekiranya anda juga mempunyai idea sains yang hebat dan gila2 (tapi semua orang rasa merepek), mungkin inilah award untuk anda! :pompom:

Source: BBC, Improbable, Wiki

aku_EnSeM

lembu tu hampir xleh caye...

namekanlah setiap lembu yg ade kt kampung korg...

ZamZamAlaKazam

... I still smile whenever I hear people talk about comparing apples and oranges.
Guess what, Improbable Research got an article on exactly that.
"Apples and Oranges - A Comparison"

Our ex-health minister would surely like the gas mask, esp. with H1N1...

hyree_hybrid

... Our ex-health minister would surely like the gas mask, esp. with H1N1...
ZamZamAlaKazam Post at 5-10-2009 08:54

Agreed. I propose all bras to be converted to gas masks, effective immediately!

kawae

funny but yes...

mbhcsf

Physics: Katherine K Whitcome of the University of Cincinnati, Daniel E Lieberman of Harvard University and Liza J Shapiro of the University of Texas, all in the US, for analytically determining why pregnant women do not tip over


ni aper ni ...hahaahah

mbhcsf

diamond from tequila?
hmm....shake or stir ?