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[Murveman]

Was reading a cracked article and ended up reading this wiki page.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ig_Nobel_Prize_winners

"Biology – Presented to Peter Fong of Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, for contributing to the happiness of clams by giving them Prozac."
"Computer Science – Presented to Chris Niswander of Tucson, Arizona, for inventing PawSense, software that detects when a cat is walking across your computer keyboard."
"Peace – Presented jointly to Claire Rind and Peter Simmons of University of Newcastle, in the UK, for electrically monitoring the activity of a brain cell in a locust while that locust was watching selected highlights from the movie Star Wars."

There are scientific experiments for everything I guess.

Cognitive science: Toshiyuki Nakagaki, Hiroyasu Yamada, Ryo Kobayashi, Atsushi Tero, Akio Ishiguro, and Ágota Tóth, for discovering that slime molds can solve puzzles.

Shit, slime molds are so cool. They've used them to pilot simple robots and map highway systems. Look that shit up.

[lumpenprol]

yeah that last one about the slime molds doesn't sound Ig nobel at all, more like fucking amazing

[Adjective]

the essay on structured procrastination was my favorite winner

[chenGOD]

the essay on structured procrastination was my favorite winner

I was going to read it, but then something more important came up.


The optimal density of airborne wasabi is great.

[zemudene]

the essay on structured procrastination was my favorite winner

I was going to read it, but then something more important came up.

yeah, no point doing that in rush...sounds interesting though...but a bit later

[BCM]

slime mold for most idm 2012

Edited by BCM, 21 February 2012 - 05:34 AM.

[Murveman]

slime mold for most idm 2012

This. Went on a slime mold youtubing spree after I read they could solve mazes.

[iep]

slime molds