The Ig Noble Prize awards people for scientific inventions that “first make people laugh, and then make them think.”
Some Winners for the 2007 Ig Nobel Prize
Linguistics: Juan Manuel Toro, Josep B. Trobalon and Nuria Sebastian-Galles, for determining that rats sometimes can’t distinguish between Japanese, played backward, and Dutch, played backward.
Aviation: Patricia V. Agostino, Santiago A. Plano and Diego A. Golombek, for discovering that hamsters recover from jetlag more quickly when given Viagra.
Chemistry: Mayu Yamamoto for extracting vanilla flavor from cow dung.
Nutrition: Brian Wansink, for investigating people’s appetites by secretly feeding them a self-refilling bowl of soup.
Physics: L. Mahadevan and Enrique Cerda Villablanca for their theoretical study of how sheets become wrinkled.
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