Ig Nobels honour Weird Science
A prestigious gathering of genuine Nobel laureates will help present the awards at the 15th Ig Nobel ceremony to be held Thursday amid pomp, mayhem and paper planes at Harvard University. The Ig Awards are presented for scientific achievement that "cannot or should not be reproduced".
Along with Professor Bernard Vonnegut, (who authored the seminal 1975 study on Chicken Plucking as a Measure of Tornado Wind Speed) previous winners of the increasingly prized Igs include authors of landmark reports on the impact of country music on suicide, the use of magnets to levitate frogs, and the effect of beer, garlic and sour cream on the appetite of leeches.
The keynote address on Thursday will be given by the 2003 Ig Nobel biology laureate Kees Moeliker, who won for documenting the first - and so far the only - recorded case of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard duck.
Along with Professor Bernard Vonnegut, (who authored the seminal 1975 study on Chicken Plucking as a Measure of Tornado Wind Speed) previous winners of the increasingly prized Igs include authors of landmark reports on the impact of country music on suicide, the use of magnets to levitate frogs, and the effect of beer, garlic and sour cream on the appetite of leeches.
The keynote address on Thursday will be given by the 2003 Ig Nobel biology laureate Kees Moeliker, who won for documenting the first - and so far the only - recorded case of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard duck.
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