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The 2008 Ig Nobel Prize Winners

improbable.com — The 2008 Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded last night at the 18th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony. The Ig Nobel Prizes honor achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think. The prizes are intended to celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative -- and spur people's interest in science, medicine, and technology.

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Who Dugg It?

Refluence, on 10/03/2008, -0/+34Dugg for "discovering that a professional lap dancer's ovulatory cycle affects her tip earnings".
- yacks, on 10/04/2008, -0/+2Bad time to take lap dancer home for some extras?
thelab101, on 10/03/2008, -2/+24Baker’s Law

As knowledge of the television show Seinfeld increases, the probability of a real-life occurrence being directly relatable to an episode moves towards one.
hnazareth16, on 10/03/2008, -1/+4Seeing what people won the award for is incredible, but the fact the winners syncronize their beverage drinking is even more so.
EdDiggEd, on 10/04/2008, -0/+9wtf??

COGNITIVE SCIENCE PRIZE... for discovering that slime molds can solve puzzles.
REFERENCE: "Intelligence: Maze-Solving by an Amoeboid Organism,"

How badass is that?
Although a read of the abstract seems to imply that an amoeba can find food in a maze, which doesn't necessarily mean problem solving as much as keep going till food is found - it's not terribly clear on that.
- NCSUspoon, on 10/04/2008, -0/+2A slime mold is not an amoeba, it's actually a multicelled organism. It's just amoeba like, meaning it moves and acts like one.
Jon211, on 10/04/2008, -0/+17MEDICINE PRIZE. Dan Ariely of Duke University, USA, for demonstrating that high-priced fake medicine is more effective than low-priced fake medicine.

Surely all the pharaceutical companies already knew this?
- haydesigner, on 10/04/2008, -7/+1Not to be a bitch, but it is "pharmaceutical"
  And spell check does catch that one.
  - hiPpymIck, on 10/04/2008, -2/+2..dont be so ignoble
    
    /see title
TJATL, on 10/04/2008, -0/+518th First Annual? My mind is about to explode because I can't decide if that was deliberate or not!
remo2012, on 10/04/2008, -2/+1I nominate these nerds and dweebs that hacked their Rock Band Controllers and made a Blues Band!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncyT4BP52_U
BradOFarrell, on 10/04/2008, -5/+2CERN should be given it's 2009 nobel prize during the 2008 ceremonies, on account of the fact that the Large Hadron Collider will destroy the world before the 2009 ceremonies can happen.
narupo, on 10/04/2008, -11/+2Nobel Prize is nothing but BS these days.
- lead2thehead, on 10/04/2008, -1/+1The people who dugg you down clearly have not read the list or recipients. Right off, I see...
  
  - The Role of Auditory Cues in Modulating the Perceived Crispness of Potato Chips
  
  - Dog fleas can jump higher than cat fleas.
  
  - Expensive medicine works better than cheap medicine.
  
  - And my personal favorite... Strippers get better tips when they're not on their periods. No joke. Some guy from UNM was awarded a Nobel f*cking Prize for studying that!
  - lead2thehead, on 10/04/2008, -1/+0Oops... just noticed that this was the Ig Nobel Prize and not the real one. Please disregard. :)
hiPpymIck, on 10/04/2008, -1/+5from 2007..
CHEMISTRY: Mayu Yamamoto of the International Medical Center of Japan, for developing a way to extract vanillin -- vanilla fragrance and flavoring -- from cow dung.

..*****
flagg85, on 10/04/2008, -0/+2I love this one "A Preliminary Survey of Rhinotillexomania in an Adolescent Sample" from 2001, Rhinotillexomania is the scientific term for nose-picking.
skyz, on 10/04/2008, -0/+1i like the one for physics 'the spontaneous knotting string' now that has has deep metaphysical implications
fx666, on 10/04/2008, -6/+1I nominate Dawkins for the Ig Nobel Prize because of his extremely stupid version of the evolutionary theory that not a single professional evolutionist accepts. But the DIGG evolutionists are so incredibly stupid that for them Dawkins is an idol of atheism.
- RobotBuddha, on 10/04/2008, -0/+2"that not a single professional evolutionist accepts."
  
  "a single professional evolutionist accepts."
  
  "professional evolutionist"
  
  I think that trumps the fact that you don't seem to have any idea what the ig prize is.
  - fx666, on 10/05/2008, -2/+1Wow! You took my phrase apart without knowing what each part means, which is so typical of the evolutionists. Ig Nobel Prize is awarded for the most ridiculous pseudo-scientific research projects or theories. The essence of the Dawkins' evolutionary theory is simple even for the unsophisticated minds -- genetics mutations in a single species cause genetic variations in the other species living in the same geographic area. This theory runs contrary to all genetics data, and that is why it is rejected by all biologists and anthropologists.
lead2thehead, on 10/04/2008, -2/+1Is it just me, or have they REALLY lowered the standards? So far I've found...

- The Role of Auditory Cues in Modulating the Perceived Crispness of Potato Chips

- Dog fleas can jump higher than cat fleas.

- Expensive medicine works better than cheap medicine.

- And my personal favorite... Strippers get better tips when they're not on their periods, by Brent Jordan from UNM.
- lead2thehead, on 10/04/2008, -1/+0Oops... just noticed that this was the Ig Nobel Prize. Please disregard. :)
nshady, on 10/04/2008, -0/+2This is probably the link you were expecting: http://improbable.com/ig/winners/#ig2008
k3rfuffl3, on 10/04/2008, -1/+1Amoebas can solve puzzles... May be smarter than the average Digger.
slapthemonkey, on 10/04/2008, -0/+1I didn't know of this
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