I call on fellow lit-iders to name their favourite prize. Personally, I can't say any of them come close to this: LINGUISTICS: Juan Manuel Toro <http://people.sissa.it/%7Ejmtoro/>, Josep B. Trobalon and Núria Sebastián-Gallés<http://www.ub.es/pbasic/sppb/ingl/cv/sebastia.htm>, of Universitat de Barcelona, for showing that rats sometimes cannot tell the difference between a person speaking Japanese backwards and a person speaking Dutch backwards. REFERENCE: "Effects of Backward Speech and Speaker Variability in Language Discrimination by Rats <http://www.apa.org/releases/speech_article.pdf>," Juan M. Toro, Josep B. Trobalon and Núria Sebastián-Gallés, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, vol. 31, no. 1, January 2005, pp 95-100. (J. L. -- have an opinion on the merits here?) Julie Krueger On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 6:07 PM, Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > http://improbable.com/ig/winners/#ig2008 > > Robert Paul, > watching for spontaneous knotting of sentences, > somewhere south of Reed College > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, > digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html >