Mercnbeth
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The annual "Ig Nobel" awards, which give spoof prizes to the most offbeat research.
This year's crop...
...to the inventor of an alarm that rings then runs away and hides, thus ensuring that the sleeper has to get up to turn it off.
...to scientists who researched whether humans swim faster in syrup rather than in water.
...to British boffins who analysed the electrical activity of a locust's brain cell while the insect watched a "Star Wars" movie.
...to a German team that calculated the pressure produced in penguins' anuses when the birds expel their faeces.
(What is it with German's and scat?)
Source Document: http://www.physorg.com/news9161.html
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