Digital rectal massage is a cure for hiccups, winner, Medicine, 2006 "Termination of Intractable Hiccups with Digital Rectal Massage", Annals of Emergency Medicine, August 1988
Suicide rates are linked to the amount of country music played on the radio, winner, Medicine, 2004 "The Effect of Country Music on Suicide", Social Forces, 1992 Rats can’t always tell the difference between Japanese spoken backwards and Dutch spoken backwards, winner, Linguistics, 2007 "Effects of Backward Speech and Speaker Variability in Language Discrimination by Rats," Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, vol. 31, no. 1, January 2005 The Linguistics Ig Nobel winner in 2007. In fairness to the researchers, they were trying to find similarities between human infants and other mammals, in order to better determine the evolutionary origins of speech. But what they actually did was show the world that rats don’t speak backwards Japanese. A miss, really. You can extract vanilla flavouring from cow dung, winner, Chemistry, 2006 "Novel Production Method for Plant Polyphenol from Livestock Excrement Using Subcritical Water Reaction," International Journal of Chemical Engineering, 2008. The next round of Ignobles is due in October. My favourite all timer was the conclusion reached by the Swedish Pork Marketing Board that really thick pork chops taste the best! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/minds-eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
