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| by Davey Winder | |
| Saturday, 04 October 2008 | |
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Page 2 of 3 You can be forgiven for thinking that when it comes to
the 2008 Ig Nobel Prize for medicine it will have to go to some hugely
worthy research. Forgiven, but wrong. Featured Whitepaper
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Science DiscussionsDan Ariely of Duke University invested himself and his time in looking at the "Commercial Features of Placebo and Therapeutic Efficacy" and was rewarded with an Ig Nobel, whatever. Sticking with the pointless, we arrive at the cognitive science prize. Pointless, perhaps, but at least it does provide a little of that spur the award organisers were talking about, the make you think factor. And the winner is research which discovered that slime molds can solve puzzles. A slime mold could probably do as good a job as most economists in solving the puzzle of the current financial meltdown that the world is experiencing. But who won the 2008 Ig Nobel prize for economics and for revealing what great secret? Ah, yes, that would be Geoffrey Miller, Joshua Tybur and Brent Jordan of the University of New Mexico, for discovering that the ovulatory cycle of a lap dancer will impact upon her tip earning capability. Want more 2008 Ig Nobel Prize winning nonsense? Good, you can find the big prizes for literature, chemistry, physics and peace on page 3... CONTINUES |
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