Going Like Sixty
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The winners of my favorite awards, the Ig Nobel Awards, have been released. A researcher who figured out that Diet Coke explodes sperm is a top Ig Nobel winner. Ig Nobel also honored a group of scientists who discovered that people will happily eat stale chips if they crunch loudly. Other Ig Nobel winners included physicists who found out that anything that can tangle will tangle, and a team of biologists who ascertained that dog fleas jump farther than cat fleas. The Ig Nobel awards honor goofy research that contains real scientific results. They are meant as a humorous alternative to the deadly serious Nobel Awards. Both offer awards in the categories of chemistry, physics, economics, literature and peace; the Ig Nobel prizes also honor achievements in public health, engineering, biology, and interdisciplinary research. Awarded by the editors of the Annals of Improbable Research, a scientific humor magazine, the prizes are based on actual published research.  The biology prize goes to a French team that found dog fleas can jump higher than cat fleas, while the medicine prize was awarded to a team at Duke University in North Carolina who showed that high-priced placebos work better than cheap fake medicine. Dorian Raymer of the Scripps Institution in San Diego and a colleague won the physics prize for demonstrating mathematically why hair or a ball of string will inevitably tangle itself in knots.
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