This year’s Ig Nobel prizes
- Interdisciplinary Research: Karl Kruszelnicki, of the University of Sydney, for performing a comprehensive survey of human belly button lint – who gets it, when, what colour, and how much.
- Mathematics: Two Indian scientists came up with a new method for estimating the surface area of elephants.
- Literature: Two US researchers wrote a colourful report on The Effects Of Pre-Existing Inappropriate Highlighting On Reading Comprehension.
- Peace: A Japanese team got the prize for promoting peace and harmony between the species by inventing Bow-Lingual, a device that translates a dog’s barks into Japanese.
- Medicine: Chris McManus, of University College London, was able to show that ancient sculptures of men wrongly had a larger left testicle (in nature, the reverse is true, apparently!)
Annals of Improbable Research (AIR).
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