{"id":1943,"date":"2007-10-08T12:27:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-08T12:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2007\/10\/what-no-prize-for-blogs.html"},"modified":"2007-10-08T12:27:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-08T12:27:00","slug":"what-no-prize-for-blogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2007\/10\/what-no-prize-for-blogs.html","title":{"rendered":"What? No prize for blogs?"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a> The Nobel Prizes are being announced this week. <\/p>\n

Which means it’s time for the “Ig Nobel Prizes” — awarded every year to the ludicrous and the laughable, but otherwise extremely valuable scientific and artistic contributions to humanity. <\/p>\n

What would Alfred Nobel<\/a> (pictured to the left) think? I’m sure he’d quote the inimitable J.J. Walker<\/a>: “Dy-no-MITE!” <\/p>\n

This has very little, of course, to do with relgion or the Catholic Church. But it’s a holiday, and I’m bored. <\/p>\n

Read on<\/a>: <\/p>\n

The winners:<\/p>\n

Medicine<\/b> Brian Witcombe of Gloucester and Dan Meyer of Antioch, Tennessee, for their report in the British Medical Journal, Sword Swallowing and its Side-Effects<\/p>\n

Physics<\/b> L Mahadevan of Harvard and Enrique Cerda Villablanca of Santiago University, Chile, for studying how sheets become wrinkled<\/p>\n

Biology<\/b> Johanna van Bronswijk of Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands, for a census of the mites, insects, spiders, pseudoscorpions, crustaceans, bacteria, algae, ferns and fungi with whom we share our beds<\/p>\n

Chemistry<\/b> Mayu Yamamoto of the International Medical Centre of Japan, for developing a way to extract vanilla essence from cow dung<\/p>\n

Linguistics<\/b> Juant Manuel Toro, Josep Trobalon and N\u00faria Sebasti\u00e1n-Gall\u00e9s, of Barcelona University, for showing that rats cannot tell the difference between a person speaking Japanese backwards and a person speaking Dutch backwards<\/p>\n

Literature<\/b> Glenda Browne of Australia, for her study of the word “the” and the problems it causes when indexing <\/p>\n

Peace<\/b> The Air Force Wright Laboratory, Dayton, Ohio, for instigating research on a chemical weapon to make enemy soldiers sexually irresistible to each other<\/p>\n

Nutrition<\/b> Brian Wansink of Cornell University, for exploring the seemingly boundless appetites of human beings by feeding them with a self-refilling, bottomless bowl of soup<\/p>\n

Economics<\/b> Kuo Cheng Hsieh, of Taiwan, for patenting a device that catches bank robbers by dropping a net over them<\/p>\n

Aviation<\/b> Patricia V Agostino, Santiago A Plano and Diego A Golombek of Argentina, for the discovery that Viagra aids jetlag recovery in hamsters<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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