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Friday, October 06, 2006

Limburger cheese and human feet

The 2006 Ig Nobel prizes have been awarded. My two favourites:

LITERATURE — Daniel Oppenheimer, for his report “Consequences of Erudite Vernacular Utilized Irrespective of Necessity: Problems with Using Long Words Needlessly.”

BIOLOGY — Bart Knols and Ruurd de Jong, for showing that female malaria mosquitoes are attracted equally to the smell of Limburger cheese and to the smell of human feet.
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