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The Ig Nobels invite real Nobel laureates to confer honors on serious scientists for work that is generally only unintentionally funny. There is also a peace prize, which this year was jointly awarded to the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, for making it illegal to applaud in public, and to the Belarus police "for arresting a one-armed man for applauding." The safety engineering prize went to late American researcher Gustano Pizzo, who invented a system to trap airplane hijackers, seal them into a package and parachute them into the hands of police. A team from the Britain, Netherlands and Canada were awarded the probability prize for determining that the longer a cow has been lying down, the more likely it is it will soon stand up. They also discovered that once a cow stands up, you cannot easily predict how soon it will lie down again. uk.news.yahoo/wacky-ig-nobel-prizes-show-funny-side-science-002741299.html#N4bEG4Q
Posted on: Sat, 14 Sep 2013 00:31:29 +0000

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