The 2009 Ig Nobel Award for Chemistry went to the following
paper from researchers in Mexico: Growth of Diamond Films from
Tequila <http://arxiv.org/abs/0806.1485>. Better living through chemistry!
Other interesting prizes include Physics, which went to a
group including a UT Austin professor for figuring out why pregnant
women don't tip over, Public Health to an Illinois group who designed
a brassiere that can be converted into a pair of face masks, and the
Peace prize, which went to a Swiss group for determining whether full
or empty beer bottles constitute the greater hazard in bar
fights. (It turns out empty beer bottles are sturdier than full ones
for cracking skulls.) The full list is available from
<http://improbable.com/ig/>.
Mark Minton
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