[SKRIVA] Årets IgNobel-priser
- From: "ahrvid@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <ahrvid@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2008 15:25:18 +0200 (CEST)
Årets IgNobel-priser (ung motsatser till riktiga nobelpriset) har delats ut.
Mer på:
http://improbable.com/
Jag saxar bl a:
"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."
"PEACE PRIZE. The Swiss Federal Ethics Committee on Non-Human Biotechnology
(ECNH) and the citizens of Switzerland for adopting the legal principle that
plants have dignity."
"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." (Ger hundar mer näring?)
"MEDICINE PRIZE. Dan Ariely of Duke University, USA, for demonstrating that
high-priced fake medicine is more effective than low-priced fake medicine."
(Bra nyhet för giriga medicinföretag!)
"COGNITIVE SCIENCE PRIZE. Toshiyuki Nakagaki of Hokkaido University, Japan,
Hiroyasu Yamada of Nagoya, Japan, Ryo Kobayashi of Hiroshima University,
Atsushi Tero of Presto JST, Akio Ishiguro of Tohoku University, and Ágotá Tóth
of the University of Szeged, Hungary, for discovering that slime molds can
solve puzzles." (Har varit uppe på listorna till debatt - och det handlar
förstås om automatiska reglersystem, som reagerar på saker som spår av näring,
ljus etc.)
"ECONOMICS PRIZE. Geoffrey Miller, Joshua Tybur and Brent Jordan of the
University of New Mexico, USA, for discovering that a professional lap dancer's
ovulatory cycle affects her tip earnings."
"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." (Life gets better with Coca-Cola - or
not?)
--Ahrvid
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