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Ig Nobel Awards 2003
prostoalex writes "The Ig Nobel awards for 2003 were presented at Harvard University. Hold your breath for the winners of this year's awards from Annals of Improbable Research. Engineering: the inventors of the Murphy's law. Physics: authors of 'An Analysis of the Forces Required to Drag Sheep over Various Surfaces' report. Medicine: the scientists, who discovered that London taxi drivers are smarter than average London residents. Psychology: authors of the 'Politicians' Uniquely Simple Personalities' report. Chemistry: a Japanese scientist who studied a bronze statue strangely ignored by pigeon population. Literature: the author of more than 80 scientific reports on amusing statistical information. Economics: the man, who viewed the entire country of Liechtenstein as a large convention center. Interdisciplinary: authors of 'Chickens Prefer Beautiful Humans' study. Biology: first documented case of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard duck species. Links and pictures are available from the official Web site, linked above."
Biology: first documented case of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard duck species
I always was suspicious of those damn mallards.. Their "Oh, I'm just an innocent duck" quacks and what not..
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the scientists, who discovered that London taxi drivers are smarter than average London residents
Makes sense to me. They charge a small fortune to go a small distance, and we still pay it. : )
That's so unfair. Beautiful people have an advantage in everything.
That was less of a "who wants to know?" study than a "Surely that has been proved already?" study...
/clothes/ made of that stuff dammit (and a car)! That's damn useful...
And what's wrong with studying statues that pigeons ignore? I want
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Believe it or not, they actually have pictures of the act as well. That's the Internet for you, nothing but pr0n.
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Biology: first documented case of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard duck species. Links and pictures are available from the official Web site, linked above.
Maybe not quite the juxtaposition that was intended.
Wonder if he can refuse to pay bills, citing death as the reason.
Biology: first documented case of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard duck species. Links and pictures are available from the official Web site...
Great! Now, when people say the internet is too foul I can just point them to a love story about two fowls.
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'An Analysis of the Forces Required to Drag Sheep over Various Surfaces'
Let me guess, these were Scottish researchers, right?
Damn those AC karma whores...
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Hey, I consider it useful that Trinkaus discovered that woman in vans don't stop for stopsigns. I've never liked those minivan driving soccer moms.
Observations were made at the same 4 T-junction intersections in a residential community in the suburbs of a large northeastern city. Two characteristics were selected for viewing: type of vehicle and sex of driver. Data for 8 90-min observations suggest an overall compliance rate of about 6% with stop signs in a residential community. Women driving vans were the least compliant--approximately 1%.Link
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The scary thing about this that most london cabbies seem to be bigoted, racist, sexist, quasi-fascist, foaming-at-the-mouth right-wingers.
I always thought it was just due to the buildup of misanthropic rage from the job they do, but this research raises the disturbing possibility is that maybe their opinions only seem offensive to me because I'm not smart enough to understand them, and that they're actually right.
Genuine quote from when I took a cab last winter:
Me: Cold out tonight, eh?
Cabbie: Yeah. Still, if it kills off a few of these homeless people it's not a bad thing, eh?
evil math within Nature's Cubic Creation!
I'm suprised that SCO's McBride isn't on this list somewhere, for his spectacular achievement in Chemistry: Turning bullshit into gold.
There was also a study of sado-masochistic bestial necrophilia by jockeys, but it turned out the researcher was just flogging a dead horse.
GCHQ Quantum Insert installed. If only our tongues were made of glass, how much more careful we would be when we speak
Literature: the author of more than 80 scientific reports on amusing statistical information.
80 reports? That should be enough to write an 81st scientific report on amusing statistical information about these 80 reports.
...not that there's anything wrong with that!
"Ask not what your country can do for you." --John F. Kennedy
On 5 June 1995 an adult male mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) collided with the glass facade of the Natuurmuseum Rotterdam and died. An other drake mallard raped the corpse almost continuously for 75 minutes. Then the author disturbed the scene and secured the dead duck. Dissection showed that the rape-victim indeed was of the male sex. It is concluded that the mallards were engaged in an 'Attempted Rape Flight' that resulted in the first described case of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard.
75 MINUTES! Talk about not knowing when to quit! Not even a, "Honey, are you awake?"... sheeesh.
BTW, the pictures of the ducks are quite tasteful, while the beautiful chicken photos border on hard-core pornography.
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...I've found that many geese like to dress themselves up as mallards and parade about. Don't get fooled like I did!
The first case of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard...
What was the thought process on that one?
Hmmm... That duck is humping a dead duck. I think I'll time it...
OK. He's done. I wonder what the gender is of that dead duck?
I, for one, welcome our new homosexual necrophiliac Mallard duck overlords.
The study was biased as women (and left-handed men) were left out. Similar to the ducks.
Women and left handed men were left out of the duck study? I'm going to write to my MP.
homosexual necrophilia in the mallard duck species. Links and pictures are available...
I got spam with that same line in the header yesterday.
...and no, the links didn't work.
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> Biology: first documented case of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard duck species.
"I am not a homosexual necrophiliac!" said Tom in dead earnest.