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2004 Ig Nobel Prizes Announced
ancice writes "The
2004 Ig Nobel prizes are out.
Article by New Scientist. An 'invisible gorilla has scooped the 2004 Ig Nobel Prize for Psychology'. And 'dropped food is safe to eat if it has spent no more than five seconds on the floor' - Public Health. Finally, there's proof for the 5 second rule! And for Engineering, 'Patenting of the combover'. Official page with
ceremony and
lectures."
However, It does amaze me that some people buy the stuff by the case for their home, and/or the most expensive brand (it's just packaged water, damn it!). Nearly everyone can get the same quality water from home with the right filtration process.
While sometimes over used by some people, pure packaged water makes a fine product and I believe that wherever you see a soda can vended you should have the opportunity to purchase the most important thing that humans need, clean fresh water.
The grass is only greener, if you don't take care of your own lawn.
That was under artificially contaminated conditions. Earlier in that article, the student mentioned with suprise that even high-traffic areas were fairly germ-free. In practice, this validates the 5 second rule for me. Just don't forget to blow it off to really make sure it's clean!
Libertarian: label used by embarrassed Republicans, longing to be open about their greed, drug use and porn collections.
I used to have the sig, "If you think common sense is common, your sample size is too small". I think that applies here ...
Both of them sell bottled tap water under their respective brand names world-wide.
Aquafina == Pepsi municipal tap water
Dasani == Coke municipal tap water
So I guess people shouldn't complain that I let my dog drink out of the toilet - she's getting the same stuff you're paying a buck a bottle for.
Yea, it's always amazed me that people will pay MORE (sometimes the water costs the same, but a lot of the times it is more) for Coca-Cola or Pepsi WITHOUT the flavoring, coloring, carbonation, sugar, etc added to it...basically just the water.
This is hardly original work... I think it was well established by Douglas Adams, though he refered to it as a "Somebody Else's Problem Field". If you're busy counting balls, the gorilla must be Somebody Else's Problem, and thus goes unnoticed by you. http://www.artpolitic.org/infopedia/se/SEP_field.h tml explains the concept nicely.
In any case, it does taste better than other bottled waters for some inexplicable reason.
May you be touched by His Noodly Appendage. RAmen.
but wherever you go in the north american continent, a bottle of coke will always taste exactly like every other bottle of coke, and that's a phenominal feat.
Don't travel much, do you?
I used to be able to identify the bottling plant by the taste of a bottle of Coke. I've been living in one place too long now to be able to do that any more, but I can still taste the difference when I make the occasional trip.