The Ig Nobles have been awarded for this year ...
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I quite like this one ...
Literature: Ireland's police service for writing and presenting more than 50 traffic tickets to the most frequent driving offender in the country - Prawo Jazdy - whose name in Polish means "Driving Licence".
and this one:
Chemistry: Javier Morales, Miguel Apatiga and Victor M Castano of Universidad Nacional Autonoma in Mexico, for creating diamonds from tequila.
Are the researchers that frequent the railway going to change their research from beer to tequila?
But the piece de resistance has to be this one
:
Economics: The directors, executives, and auditors of four Icelandic banks for demonstrating that tiny banks can be rapidly transformed into huge banks, and vice versa (and for demonstrating that similar things can be done to an entire national economy).
For those who like me dont know what they are
Improbable Research
The Ig Nobel Prizes honor achievements that first make people
laugh, and then make them
think. The prizes are intended to celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative -- and spur people's interest in science, medicine, and technology.