>>> Subj:     Ig Nobel Awards (Gz)                  (Includes 6 jokes and articles)

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 This is the official Ig® Nobel web site at

 http://www.improb.com/ig/ig-top.html

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Subj:     Ig Nobel Prizes (DU)
          From: Ossama's Laugh on 1/20/98

 London -- This year's Ig Nobel Prizes, the irreverant
 alternative awards foisted upon those "whose achievements
 cannot or should not be reproduced", have been awarded.

 An illustrious cluster of Nobel laureates gathered at
 Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to present
 the awards on Thursday night, according to a report in the
 Internet edition of the Times of London newspaper.

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 Ig Nobel Physics Prize
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 Briton Dr Robert Matthews of Aston University for the
 observation that toast does usually fall buttered-side
 down.

 In Tumbling Toast, Murphy's Law And The Fundamental
 Constants, published in the European Journal of Physics,
 he demonstrated that a slice of toast teethering on the
 edge of a plate or table is likely to land with the
 buttered side on the floor.  The reason is that the spin
 of the toast is enough only for the slice to perform a
 half-somersault by the time it lands.  The toast was
 simulated by a piece of wood with B, for butter, daubed
 on one side.

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 Ig Nobel Chemistry Prize
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 It was given to Professor George Goble, from Purdue
 University, Indiana, for lighting a barbecue grill in a
 record three seconds, using charcoal and liquid oxygen.
 Also see 'Lighting Charcoal' in FACTS2.

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 Ig Nobel Biology Prize
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 It went to a study by researchers at the University of
 Bergen, Norway, into The Effects of Ale, Garlic and
 Soured Cream on the Appetite of Leeches.

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 Ig Nobel Public Health Prize
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 It was awarded to a Norweigian team for its cautionary
 medical report entitled Transmission Of Gonorrhoea
 Through An Inflatable Doll.

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 Ig Nobel Peace Prize
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 President Jacques Chirac of France won the award "for
 commemorating the 50th anniversary of Hiroshima with
 atomic bomb tests in the Pacific."

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