[CH] igNobel Prize
Bucsics (bucsics@ping.at)
Tue, 05 Oct 1999 18:48:19 +0200
I am sure all chileheads will agree with the choice for biology...
The Ig Nobel Prize honors work that "cannot
or should not be reproduced" (though value
judgements on the merits of the work are
avoided). Winners come from around the
world to receive their prizes, which are
presented by actual Nobel laureates. This
year's winners include, in their respective
categories:
Science Education. The Kansas Board of
Education and the Colorado State Board
of Education, for mandating that children
should not believe in Darwin's theory of
evolution.
Medicine. Arvid Vatle of Norway, for
carefully collecting, classifying, and
contemplating which kinds of containers
his patients chose when submitting urine
samples.
Chemistry. Takeshi Makino, of the Safety
Detective Agency in Japan, for his
involvement with an infidelity detection
spray that wives can apply to their
husbands' underwear.
Biology. Paul Bosland, of the New Mexico
State University's Chile Pepper Institute,
for breeding a spiceless jalapeno chile
pepper.
Managed Health Care. The late George
and Charlotte Blonsky of New York City
and San Jose, California, for inventing a
childbirth device in which the woman is
strapped to a circular table that is then
rotated at high speed.
Anna Bucsics, bemused in Vienna and gloating over her first ever orange
habs.