Disturbing Science
There's a lot of sick, strange people out there. Many of them turn to science for a career. Why this is nobody knows. They haven't gotten around to studying that yet. For a look at what they have studied, check out the Ig Nobel Prizes. (www.improb.com/ig/ig-pastwinners.html)
Some notables:
2005 Prize for Medecine: for inventing artificial replacement testicles for dogs.
2004 Prize for Medecine: for a report titled "The Effect of Country Music On Suicide".
2003 Prize for Biology: for documenting the first recorded case of homosexual necrophelia in the mallard duck. (This is perhaps one of the more disturbing scientific articles I have ever seen. And I'm not sure which creature is more disturbing - the duck that did it or the scientist that watched...)
2002 Prize for Chemistry: for gathering many elements of the periodic table and assembling them into a four-legged periodic table table.
2001 Prize for Technology: awarded both to an Australian for patenting in the year 2001 a "circular transportation facilitation device", and to the Australian patent office for issuing an innovation patent for the wheel.
2000 Prize for Physics: for using magnets to levitate a frog.
1999 Prize for Literature: to the British Standards Institution for a six-page specification on the proper way to make a cup of tea.
Where does it go from here? Do you have a valuable contribution to make to the world of scientific knowledge? Know of a quesiton that keeps getting overlooked by reputable scientists? Well, let me know what it is, and we'll find a quack willing to give it a go.
Some notables:
2005 Prize for Medecine: for inventing artificial replacement testicles for dogs.
2004 Prize for Medecine: for a report titled "The Effect of Country Music On Suicide".
2003 Prize for Biology: for documenting the first recorded case of homosexual necrophelia in the mallard duck. (This is perhaps one of the more disturbing scientific articles I have ever seen. And I'm not sure which creature is more disturbing - the duck that did it or the scientist that watched...)
2002 Prize for Chemistry: for gathering many elements of the periodic table and assembling them into a four-legged periodic table table.
2001 Prize for Technology: awarded both to an Australian for patenting in the year 2001 a "circular transportation facilitation device", and to the Australian patent office for issuing an innovation patent for the wheel.
2000 Prize for Physics: for using magnets to levitate a frog.
1999 Prize for Literature: to the British Standards Institution for a six-page specification on the proper way to make a cup of tea.
Where does it go from here? Do you have a valuable contribution to make to the world of scientific knowledge? Know of a quesiton that keeps getting overlooked by reputable scientists? Well, let me know what it is, and we'll find a quack willing to give it a go.
posted by MyMaidMary | 1:44 p.m.
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