uhh.. no.. i've been eating this fish for most of my life
:p
anyway.. for laughs...
This year's
IgNobel winners include:
"Chemistry" - Mayu Yamamoto of the International
Medical Centre of Japan, for developing a way to extract vanillin,
or vanilla fragrance and flavoring, from cow dung. "She seems to
claim if companies start using this method it might help with
global warming because some of all the cow dung that causes
problems in the atmopshere will start getting used," Abrahams
said.
"Linguistics" - Juan Manuel Toro, Josep B.
Trobalon and Nuria Sebastian-Galles, of Universitat de Barcelona -
for a study showing rats sometimes fail to distinguish between a
person speaking Japanese backwards and a person speaking Dutch
backwards.
"Peace Prize" - The Air Force Wright Laboratory,
Dayton, Ohio for instigating research and development on a chemical
weapon, the so-called "gay bomb," that "will make enemy soldiers
become sexually irresistible to each other".
"Biology" - Dr. Johanna E.M.H. van Bronswijk of
Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands, for their
census of all the mites, insects, spiders, pseudoscorpions,
crustaceans, bacteria, algae, ferns and fungi that share our beds
at night.
"Economics" - Kuo Cheng Hsieh, of Taichung,
Taiwan, for patenting a device in 2001 that catches bank robbers by
dropping a net over them, known as the "net trapping system for
capturing a robber immediately".
