The 2013 Ig Nobel Prizes: Drunk People Feel Sexy, And More Of The Year's Silliest Science
Proud Ig Nobel Winners Ig Nobel Prizes The Ig Nobel Prizes are in! Here are the winners for the strangest science awards of the year. Last night were the Ig Nobel Prizes, the most important of Nobel Prize ceremonies. The ceremony honors the year's strangest--but also very good!--scientific research, in 10 different categories. Past winners have included research on remote-controlled whale snot retrieval and the physics of why you don't spill your coffee. So how did this year stack up? Oh, man. Some real gems. Here they are: MEDICINE PRIZE For: "assessing the effect of listening to opera, on heart transplant patients who are mice." Reference: "Auditory stimulation of opera music induced prolongation of murine cardiac allograft survival and maintained generation of regulatory CD4+CD25+ cells," Masateru Uchiyama, Xiangyuan Jin, Qi Zhang, Toshihito Hirai, Atsushi Amano, Hisashi Bashuda and Masanori Niimi, Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery, vol. 7, no. 26, epub. March 23, 2012. [Ed note:...