Every year at the 1st thursday of october Ig Nobel (pronounce Ignobel) Prizes are assigned.
Win researchers that make people laugh and then think.
Some examples of 2008 Awards:
NUTRITION PRIZE. Massimiliano Zampini of the University of Trento,
Italy and Charles Spence of Oxford University, UK,
for electronically modifying the sound of a potato chip to make the person
chewing the chip believe it to be crisper and fresher than it really is.
ARCHAEOLOGY PRIZE. Astolfo G. Mello Araujo and José Carlos Marcelino of
Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, for measuring how the course of history,
or at least the contents of an archaeological dig site, can be scrambled
by the actions of a live armadillo.
BIOLOGY PRIZE. Marie-Christine Cadiergues, Christel Joubert, and
Michel Franc of Ecole Nationale Veterinaire de Toulouse, France
for discovering that the fleas that live on a dog can jump higher
than the fleas that live on a cat.
CHEMISTRY PRIZE. Sharee A. Umpierre of the University of Puerto Rico,
Joseph A. Hill of The Fertility Centers of New England (USA),
Deborah J. Anderson of Boston University School of Medicine and Harvard Medical School (USA),
for discovering that Coca-Cola is an effective spermicide, and
to Chuang-Ye Hong of Taipei Medical University (Taiwan), C.C. Shieh, P. Wu,
and B.N. Chiang (all of Taiwan) for discovering that it is not.
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