The first prize at this year's Ignobles went for study of why coffee sloshes about in our cups. The others were as follows:
Kazutaka Kurihara and Koji Tsukada of Japan who won the Acoustics prize for creating the SpeechJammer, a machine that disrupts a person's speech, by making them hear their own spoken words at a very slight delay. The Anatomy Prize went to Frans de Waal of The Netherlands and Jennifer Pokorny of the U.S. for discovering that chimpanzees can identify other chimpanzees individually from seeing photographs of their rear ends. Emmanuel Ben-Soussan and Michel Antonietti, both of France, took home the Medicine Prize for advising doctors who perform colonoscopies how to minimize the chance that their patients will explode. A group of researchers from the U.S and the U.K teamed up to win the Physics Prize. Joseph Keller, Raymond Goldstein, Patrick Warren, and Robin Ball calculated the balance of forces that shape and move the hair in a human ponytail. Anita Eerland, Rolf Zwaan and Tulio Guadalupe from The Netherlands won the Psychology Prize for their study "Leaning to the Left Makes the Eiffel Tower Seem Smaller.” The Neuroscience Prize went to a group from the U.S. Craig Bennett, Abigail Baird, Michael Miller and George Wolford demonstrated that brain researchers, by using complicated instruments and simple statistics, can see meaningful brain activity anywhere, even in a dead salmon. Johan Pettersson of Sweden won the Chemistry Prize for solving the puzzle of why, in certain houses in the town of Anderslöv, Sweden, people's hair turned green. And the literature prize was awarded to the U.S Government General Accountability Office, for issuing a report about reports about reports that recommends the preparation of a report about the report about reports about reports. You see Al - me and you ain't as made as we think we are! On 21 Sep, 01:36, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: > I discovered today that the Chairman of the Tory Party is Lord Fink. > You couldn't make it up! > > On 20 Sep, 17:33, Allan H <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > You are right,, b bu bu b bu but 'triune brain' sounds much kooler than > > Qu qu qu quadrune.. > > .a an and that word definitions; some of which not really printable in mix > > company .. you potentially bad boy Neil ..lol > > > I actually think in a way that is common knowledge.. often times have > > really no idea what they are talking about,, I know I don't, as I am full > > of hot air ready to expel it quickly. Actually I think there is so much hot > > expelled that is what keeps the earth floating in space. > > Allan > > > On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 5:52 PM, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: > > >http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi/10.1371/journal.pone.0045457 > > > > These Swedish researchers used a magic trick to show that people's > > > answers to survey questions are unreliable. I noticed many years ago > > > that most people haven't much clue what they are on about and can't > > > tell chalk from cheese. We are, in the main, moral wuckfits. > > > > The trick used was to get people to answer a few questions but change > > > a couple of the answers through a magic dodge. People argued in > > > support of the changed answers. even though they were the opposite of > > > the views they'd only just expressed. We have known 8 out of 10 cats > > > prefer Whiskas to powdered glass for many years (one of our pampered > > > pouch-devourers has just turn his nose up at Sheba as though I was > > > trying to poison him). Why do we have so much trouble taking in the > > > notion that companies pay for advertising because most people are > > > gulled by it and basically so stupid most of them operate with the > > > brain on switch off? > > > > This paper isn't all that interesting in-itself. What is interesting > > > is that much more material like this is appearing on PLos through open > > > access. One hopes the move away from vanity publishing and restricted > > > access. Over the years I found less than one in a hundred academic > > > papers worthwhile (one reads thousands in a research project and at > > > least half are likely to be outside the university's subscription and > > > cost $10 or so through inter-library loans - or $40 to the private > > > punter). > > > > Science doesn't have much comforting to tell us on human nature - this > > > is probably why most people don't want to know. It's probably time to > > > a new treatise on human nature. Economists are just discovering the > > > 'triune brain' (I was taught brain stem, reptilian, mammalian and the > > > cerebellum 45 years ago - I note that adds up to 4 and quadrune). In > > > fact there's plenty of reasonable science that demonstrates we are > > > lying, cheating, rationalising, broadly stupid bastards and some do > > > this in spades (we call them leaders or psychopaths) and most on a > > > less daring scale. > > > > Rather than describing human nature, great literature hides it from us. > > > > -- > > > -- > > ( > > ) > > |_D Allan > > > Life is for moral, ethical and truthful living. > > > I am a Natural Airgunner - > > > Full of Hot Air & Ready To Expel It Quickly. --
