Oct

8

The 2008 Ig Nobel Prize Winners List

October 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Complete list of 2008 Ig Nobel Prize winners: NUTRITION PRIZE Massimiliano Zampini of the University of Trento, Italy and Charles Spence of Oxford University, UK, for electronically modifying the sound of a potato chip to make the person chewing the chip believe it to be crisper and fresher than it really is. Reference: “The Role [...]

Dec

26

More Testosterone Poisoning: ‘Humour Comes From Testosterone’

December 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Humour ‘comes from testosterone’. ‘Men are naturally more comedic than women because of the male hormone testosterone, an expert claims. Men make more gags than women and their jokes tend to be more aggressive, Professor Sam Shuster, of Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, says. The unicycling doctor observed how the genders reacted to his “amusing” [...]

Oct

7

The 2007 Ig Nobel Prizes: Sword Swallowing, Wrinkling Sheets, Autotrophic Organisms, Vanilla Fragrance and Much More

October 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment

The 2007 Ig Nobel Prize winners. ‘The 2007 Ig Nobel Prize winners were announced, and their prizes awarded to them, last night (October 4)at a gala ceremony at Harvard’s Sanders Theatre.’ Visit the 2007 Ig Nobel Prize Winners list

Aug

16

How to Quantify the Uncertainty of “Instantaneously”

August 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment

‘We have broken speed of light’. ‘A pair of German physicists claim to have broken the speed of light – an achievement that would undermine our entire understanding of space and time. According to Einstein’s special theory of relativity, it would require an infinite amount of energy to propel an object at more than 186,000 [...]

Aug

7

The Best Summer Physics Project: Studying Bubbles in a Glass of Beer…

August 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Putting the fizz in physics. ‘Many of us look forward to a cold beer at the end of a hot summer day, but physicist John Page brings beer to work. For him, the bubbly beverage is a perfect medium for demonstrating a scientific technique pioneered by his group at the University of Manitoba. Page is [...]