Ah, but the funniest if you were actually there was the Public Health Prize,
given to a team of three Chicagoans who invented a bra that can be
unobtrusively removed and used as a gas mask.
Well, two gas masks, actually.
The team member who accepted the prize was Elena Brodner, a beautiful Ukranian
woman. She was wearing two of the inventions, and demonstrated their use on
several of the Nobel laureates present.
You just haven't lived until you've seen Paul Krugman and Orhan Pamuk with
bras over their faces.
Robin Abrahams
www.robinabrahams.com
My first book, "Miss Conduct's Mind Over Manners," is available now wherever
books are sold! (Or if not, ask the bookseller to order more. Politely!)
--- On Fri, 10/2/09, Christopher D. Green <chri...@yorku.ca> wrote:
From: Christopher D. Green <chri...@yorku.ca>
Subject: [tips] Improbable Research
To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" <tips@acsun.frostburg.edu>
Date: Friday, October 2, 2009, 7:23 AM
The IgNobels for 2009 are out!
http://improbable.com/ig/winners/#ig2009
The most "psychological" (though it is formally for veterinary
medicine) went to "Catherine Douglas and Peter Rowlinson of Newcastle
University, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, UK, for showing that cows who have
names give more milk than cows that are nameless."
The funniest, hands down, was the literature prize, which went to
"Ireland's police service (An Garda Siochana), for writing and
presenting more than fifty traffic tickets to the most frequent driving
offender in the country — Prawo Jazdy — whose name in Polish means
"Driving License"."
Chris
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York University
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Canada
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