{"id":203,"date":"2008-10-03T13:17:14","date_gmt":"2008-10-03T17:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ngc2632.com\/blog\/?p=203"},"modified":"2008-10-03T13:17:14","modified_gmt":"2008-10-03T17:17:14","slug":"the-ig-nobels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/everything\/the-ig-nobels\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ig Nobels!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Awesome synopses, as always, from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/26996167\/from\/ET\/\"><strong>here at MSNBC<\/strong><\/a>. Not time for that? Jump straight to the meat:<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"72\">&ldquo;<\/font>Here&#8217;s the full list of winners, with links to the research if available:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Nutrition:<\/strong> Massimiliano Zampini and Charles Spence for demonstrating that food tastes better <a href=\"http:\/\/www3.interscience.wiley.com\/journal\/118784133\/abstract?CRETRY=1&amp;SRETRY=0\">when it sounds better<\/a> (report from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/education\/2006\/may\/23\/highereducation.research\">The Guardian<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Peace:<\/strong> The Swiss Federal Ethics Committee on Non-Human Biotechnology and the citizens of Switzerland for adopting the legal principle that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ekah.admin.ch\/en\/topics\/dignity-of-creation\/index.html\">plants have dignity<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Archaeology:<\/strong> Astolfo Gomes de Mello Araujo and Jose Carlos Marcelino for showing <a href=\"http:\/\/www3.interscience.wiley.com\/journal\/104081908\/abstract\">armadillos can scramble the contents<\/a> of an archaeological dig (report from <a href=\"http:\/\/findarticles.com\/p\/articles\/mi_m1134\/is_\/ai_107897176\">Natural History<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Biology:<\/strong> Marie-Christine Cadiergues, Christel Joubert and Michel Franc for discovering that fleas that live on a dog can <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1016\/S0304-4017%2800%2900274-0\">jump higher<\/a> than fleas that live on a cat.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Medicine:<\/strong> Dan Ariely for demonstrating that expensive fake medicine is <a href=\"http:\/\/jama.ama-assn.org\/cgi\/content\/extract\/299\/9\/1016\">more effective<\/a> than cheap fake medicine (report in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gsb.stanford.edu\/news\/research\/mktg_shiv_pricing.shtml\">Stanford GSB News<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cognitive science:<\/strong> Toshiyuki Nakagaki, Hiroyasu Yamada, Ryo Kobayashi, Atsushi Tero, Akio Ishiguro and Agota Toth for discovering that slime molds can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/journal\/v407\/n6803\/full\/407470a0.html\">solve puzzles<\/a> (report in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ams.org\/mathmedia\/archive\/10-2000-media.html#slime\">Math in the Media<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Economics:<\/strong> Geoffrey Miller, Joshua Tyber and Brent Jordan for discovering that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unm.edu\/%7Egfmiller\/cycle_effects_on_tips.pdf\">exotic dancers earn more<\/a> when at peak fertility.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Physics:<\/strong> Dorian Raymer and Douglas Smith for proving that heaps of string or hair will <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/104\/42\/16432.full\">inevitably tangle<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Chemistry:<\/strong> Sheree Umpierre, Joseph Hill and Deborah Anderson for discovering that Coca-Cola is an <a href=\"http:\/\/content.nejm.org\/cgi\/content\/citation\/313\/21\/1351\">effective spermicide<\/a>, and C.Y. Hong, C.C. Shieh, P. Wu and B.N. Chiang for proving <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/3679247\">it is not<\/a> (report at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/cokelore\/sperm.asp\">Snopes.com<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Literature:<\/strong> David Sims for his study \u00e2\u20ac\u0153<a href=\"http:\/\/oss.sagepub.com\/cgi\/content\/abstract\/26\/11\/1625\">You Bastard<\/a>: A Narrative Exploration of the Experience of Indignation within Organizations\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (report from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bostonglobe\/magazine\/missconduct\/2008\/05\/best_paper_ever.html\">The Boston Globe<\/a>).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[*]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Awesome synopses, as always, from here at MSNBC. Not time for that? Jump straight to the meat: &ldquo;Here&#8217;s the full list of winners, with links to the research if available: Nutrition: Massimiliano Zampini and Charles Spence for demonstrating that food tastes better when it sounds better (report from The Guardian). Peace: The Swiss Federal Ethics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1rL5j-3h","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}