Winners of the Ig® Nobel Prize


	Winners of the Ig® Nobel Prize

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3-13-2007 12:09 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/20d83bbe-b7b0-4ad6-b4ee-8f1769c6e26b/1D5D8A49-48AE-4C32-9951-6D829BDAB271/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://improbable.com/ig/ig-pastwinners.html" href="http://improbable.com/ig/ig-pastwinners.html" style="font-size: 11px;">improbable.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://improbable.com/ig/ig-pastwinners.html"><H2 class="title"> Winners of the <A href="http://improbable.com/ig/" set="yes">Ig® Nobel 
      Prize</A></H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://improbable.com/ig/ig-pastwinners.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/improbable.com/img/920FBA96-2057-4CEB-9B5C-BC8869147A5D" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://improbable.com/ig/ig-pastwinners.html">ORNITHOLOGY: <A href="http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/welcome/features/20061011_ig_nobel_schwab/index.html" set="yes">Ivan
        R. Schwab</A>, of the University of California Davis, and
      the late <A href="http://gamma3.astro.ucla.edu/future_cherenkov/mays.html">Philip
      R.A. May</A> of the University of California Los Angeles, for
      exploring and explaining why woodpeckers don't get headaches.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://improbable.com/ig/ig-pastwinners.html">LITERATURE: <A href="http://weblamp.princeton.edu/~psych/psychology/research/oppenheimer/index.php" set="yes">Daniel
        Oppenheimer</A> of Princeton University for his report "<A vernacular="" erudite="" of="" consequences="" href="http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/112137622/ABSTRACT#search=" set="yes">Consequences
      of Erudite Vernacular Utilized Irrespective of Necessity: Problems with
      Using Long Words Needlessly</A>."</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://improbable.com/ig/ig-pastwinners.html">MEDICINE: Francis M. Fesmire of the <A href="http://www.utmem.edu/Medicine/">University
        of Tennessee College of Medicine</A>, for his medical case report "<A href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=3395000&dopt=Citation" set="yes">Termination
      of Intractable Hiccups with Digital Rectal Massage</A>"</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://improbable.com/ig/ig-pastwinners.html">PHYSICS: <A href="http://www.lmm.jussieu.fr/~audoly/" set="yes">Basile Audoly</A> and <A href="http://www.lmm.jussieu.fr/~neukirch/">Sebastien
        Neukirch</A> of the Université Pierre
      et Marie Curie, in Paris, for their insights into why, when you bend dry
      spaghetti, it often breaks into more than two pieces.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://improbable.com/ig/ig-pastwinners.html">MEDICINE: <A href="http://www.neuticles.com/webpages/history.html" set="yes">Gregg 
      A. Miller</A> of Oak Grove, Missouri, for inventing <A href="http://www.neuticles.com">Neuticles</A> 
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