Saturday, October 03, 2009

Ig Nobels 2009

The Ig Nobel prizes for 2009 have been announced!

Lots of highlights, although I have to give the top honor to the winners of the Peace Prize: Stephan Bolliger, Steffen Ross, Lars Oesterhelweg, Michael Thali and Beat Kneubuehl of the University of Bern, Switzerland, for:

"determining — by experiment — whether it is better to be smashed over the head with a full bottle of beer or with an empty bottle."

REFERENCE: "Are Full or Empty Beer Bottles Sturdier and Does Their Fracture-Threshold Suffice to Break the Human Skull?" Stephan A. Bolliger, Steffen Ross, Lars Oesterhelweg, Michael J. Thali and Beat P. Kneubuehl, Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine, vol. 16, no. 3, April 2009, pp. 138-42. DOI:10.1016/j.jflm.2008.07.013.


I want to read their grant application!

2 comments:

Roman said...

Good god, someone actually cracked the knuckles on one of his hands but not on the other for 60 years?

Mike said...

For science!