Ig Nobel Prize Winners - 2007 Bashny.Net

Officially called "Ignobelevskaya Award", in Russian called "Ig Nobel».

Awarded for the most idiotic and questionable achievements, discoveries and inventions.

* Medicine: Brian Vichombe (Brian Witcombe) from Britain and Dan Meyer, who studied the health effects of swallowing swords.

* Physics: A team from the United States and Chile, which have made a study of how to appear wrinkles on bedding.

* Biology: Dr Johanna van Bronsvidzhik (Johanna van Bronswijk) of the Netherlands for the census of insects living in their beds.

* Chemistry: Mayu Yamamoto (Mayu Yamamoto) from Japan for the establishment of the method of obtaining the vanilla flavor from cow dung.

* Linguistics: A group from the University of Barcelona, ​​found that rats can not distinguish the difference between Japanese and Dutch.

* Literature: Glenda Browne (Glenda Browne) from Australia, for her study of how the article "The" confuses people when they try to group words in alphabetical order.

* World: The US Air Force Wright Laboratory in (Wright Laboratory) are trying to develop a "gay bomb" that would turn enemy soldiers into homosexuals.

* Nutrition: Brian Vansink (Brian Wansink) from Cornell University for his investigation of the limits of human appetite by self-filling "bottomless" soup pots.

* Economics: Kuo Cheng Hsieh (Kuo Cheng Hsieh) from Taiwan, patented mesh that falls on the perpetrators in the case of an ATM robbery.

* Aviation: Group of the National University of Quilmes, Argentina, for what they have found that a side effect of the drug against impotence can help hamsters to recover from jet lag.