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Ig Nobel Prizes 2007

Like a year ago, I have the honor to bring this important series of awards, some of which can hardly be overlooked. The organizers of these coveted awards, speaking of these studies, they say "can not or should not be reproduced.
In fact, the IgNobel for chemistry and linguistics are truly mind-blowing ...

MEDICINE: Brian Witcombe of Gloucester , UK, and Dan Meyer of Antioch, USA, for a study on side effects of eating swords

PHYSICS: Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan of Harvard University, USA, and Enrique Cerda Villablanca of Santiago University of Chile for having studied how sheets wrinkle is

Biology: Johanna EMH van Bronswijk University of Technology Eindhoven, The Netherlands, for a census of all organisms living in read

CHEMISTRY: Mayu Yamamoto of the International Medical Center of Japan for the discovery of a way to extract vanilla fragrance and the aroma of vanilla from cow dung

LANGUAGE: Juan Manuel Toro, Josep B. Trobalon and Nuria Sebastian-Galles, University of Barcelona, \u200b\u200bfor showing that rats sometimes can not distinguish between a person speaking Japanese backwards and a Dutch speaking on the contrary

LITERATURE: Glenda Browne of Blaxland , Australia, for his study on English "the" and the problems it creates for those who must do lists in alphabetical order

PACE: Air Force Wright Laboratory in Dayton, USA, for suggesting the development of a chemical weapon, the so-called "gay bomb", able to develop an irresistible sexual attraction among troops enemies

POWER: Brian Wansink of Cornell University, USA, for studying the seemingly unlimited appetite of human beings by giving them something to eat unlimited amounts of soup

ECONOMICS: Kuo Cheng Hsieh Taichung, Taiwan, for patenting in 2001 a mechanism that catches bank robbers by throwing over them a network

AVIATION: Patricia V. Agostino, Santiago A. Plano and Diego A. Golombek, National University of Quilmes, Argentina, for their discovery that Viagra helps jet lag recovery in hamsters.