okay this is interesting, this is the first time i've heard of the Ig Nobel prize.
Here's an excerpt:
BOSTON, Massachusetts (AP) -- The sound sets teeth on edge, makes skin crawl and sends a shiver down the spine. Just thinking about it gives some people the heebie-jeebies.
But what is it about the sound of fingernails scratching a blackboard that elicits such a universal reaction?
Randolph Blake and two colleagues think they know -- the sound's frequency level.
Their research has earned them an Ig Nobel, the annual award given at Harvard University by Annals of Improbable Research magazine for weird, wacky and sometimes worthless scientific research.
The winners honored -- or maybe dishonored -- at a raucous ceremony Thursday at Harvard's inappropriately opulent Sanders Theater include a doctor who put his finger on a cure for hiccups; two men who think there is something to the old adage that feet smell like cheese; and researchers who discovered that dung beetles won't tuck in to just any old pile of ... well, dung.
Read more here
It's interesting u know, if worthless.
blabla.. things can be so hard. blaaaa. blaaaaaaaa. so much i want to say, nothing i can say.
cheers everyone.
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