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doodab replied

30 September 2011, 13:32
You could probably win a prize for working out why that happens.
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Churchill replied

30 September 2011, 13:29
There's an echo in the cave...
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doodab started a topic Science

30 September 2011, 13:25
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BBC News - Beetle's beer bottle sex wins Ig Nobel Prize

Ig Nobel award time. Some crackers in there.

Chemistry Prize: A team led from Shiga University, Japan, that determined the ideal density of airborne wasabi to awaken sleeping people in case of a fire or other emergency, and for applying this knowledge to invent the wasabi alarm. Patent pending.

Medicine Prize: Shared by two teams whose independent research jointly established that people make better decisions about some kinds of things, but worse decisions about other kinds of things‚ when they have a strong urge to urinate.

And my personal favourite of this years awards:

Literature Prize: John Perry of Stanford University, US, for his Theory of Structured Procrastination, which says: To be a high achiever, always work on something important, using it as a way to avoid doing something that's even more important.

Which I think is actually pretty good advice.
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