Thursday, February 26, 2009

Top Ten Ig Nobel Awards

Sometimes science just ain't right.

Like this #6 Levitating Frog scientific "research" or toad torture?


From the Popular Mechanics website, they state...
A large portion of scientific research remains forever off the public radar. A select few studies deliver results that reverberate in the scientific community and make their way to textbooks. Then there are those research efforts that, as one group puts it, represent "achievements that cannot or should not be reproduced." Every year the Annals of Improbable Research highlights this last group with the Ig Nobel, an award for the top engineering solutions, science products and peer-reviewed papers that, according to the editors, "make you laugh, then make you think." We looked back at 18 years of the prizes to bring you our 10 favorite Ig Nobels of all time.

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