2003 Ig Nobel Prizes
Every year the Annuals of Improbable Research presents awards in research areas that first make one laugh, then, make one think. The hopes of the award are to reward the imaginative. Each is presented by a Real Life Nobel Laurette. This year's awards (the 13th annual!) were recently presented a few weeks ago in Cambridge, MA (check out the site at http://www.improbable.com.

Winners included: The engineers who came up with Murphy's Law, several Aussie physicists who study the forces required to drag sheep over various surfaces, London researchers who found that cab drivers have bigger brains, a Japanese chemist who studied a bronze statue that had no pidgeon poop, and several folks from Stockholm University who found that chickens prefer beautiful people.

There are links to the valid research, as well a downloadable copy of the magazine HotAIR (Annuals of Improbable Research) to check out. Marc Abrahams, a former columnist with Design News, is the founder of the Ig Nobel awards.


- posted by Paula Porter @ 9:21 AM