T]he 15th Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony was held at Sander’s Theater at Harvard University on Oct. 6, 2005 (VIDEO). Winners, reports Slashdot, include:
- Will Humans Swim Faster or Slower in Syrup? (Chemistry),
- Electrically monitoring the activity of a brain cell in a locust while that locust was watching selected highlights from the movie “Star Wars” (Peace),
- The Significance of Mr. Richard Buckley’s Exploding Trousers (Agricultural History) and
- many more.
The keynote address of the Oct. 6 ceremony was by “2003 Ig Nobel Biology Prize winner Kees Moeliker (who documented the first scientifically recorded case of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard duck).” OPEN THREAD: