Saturday, 2 October 2010

Whale Snot, Cursing Away Pain Among 2010 Ig Nobels

The National Geographic carries a pretty full breakdown of this year's Ig Nobel awards. Some of the winners really deserve a prize for getting a grant to have fun. How else would you describe using remote-controlled helicopters to hover above whales' blow holes to connect snot samples in petri dishes? And the Mexican researchers were really doing that, not just playing a video game. (But give the developers time.)

Click the link under the picture to see the rest of the winners.

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