Weird & Interesting science

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Science doesn't get weirder or more interesting than the Ig Nobel Prizes...

This year's Ig Nobel Prize in Economics is "for discovering that the obesity of a country’s politicians may be a good indicator of that country’s corruption". Well, duh - haven't they heard of "fat cats"?

The Ig Nobel Prize in Medicine goes to the team that demonstrated "that sexual orgasms can be as effective as decongestant medicines at improving nasal breathing". The line for the follow-up study forms on the left...

Then there's the paired Physics and Kinetics Prizes - one for "experiments to learn why pedestrians do not constantly collide with other pedestrians" and the other for "experiments to learn why pedestrians do sometimes collide with other pedestrians". Who said you can't have it both ways?

And we can't forget the Transportation Prize, for "experimentally determining that it is safe to transport an airborne rhinoceros upside down"

If you want to know who won the other five Ig Nobels this year, go read the article.