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Sep 21st, 2012 at 4:53am

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The Ig Nobles are here, this year my favourite had to be the Literature award Grin Grin Grin
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19667664
 

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Reply #1 - Sep 21st, 2012 at 6:24am

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I would love to know the background of these two. Maybe they should mix and match. We can then prevent dead salmon exploding......... Grin

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Neuroscience Prize: Craig Bennett, Abigail Baird, Michael Miller, and George Wolford (US) for demonstrating that brain researchers, by using complicated instruments and simple statistics, can see meaningful brain activity anywhere - even in a dead salmon.

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Medicine Prize: Emmanuel Ben-Soussan and Michel Antonietti (France) for advising doctors who perform colonoscopies how to minimise the chance that their patients will explode.
 

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Reply #2 - Sep 21st, 2012 at 7:20am

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Fluid Dynamics Prize: Rouslan Krechetnikov (US/Russia/Canada) and Hans Mayer (US) for studying the dynamics of liquid-sloshing, to learn what happens when a person walks while carrying a cup of coffee.
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