The Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded last night! It’s that fun time of year when we get to enjoy scientists’ geektastic senses of humour.
Aussie Aussie Aussie! Ig Ig Ig! The Ig Nobel 2011 awards have wrapped up, and Australian researchers have secured awards for medicine and biology research. Not your regular ordinary medicine or biology research, though; this was for researching the effects of holding in urine and for discovering that certain kinds of beetles try to mate with certain kinds of Australian beer bottles.
The alternative Nobel Prize awards, the Ig Nobels, have been called for another year, with this particular winner making everyone laugh with a remote-controlled helicopter that collects whales’ mucus and breath. A deserving winner, I think you might agree.
