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Objectstaat
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Publication Date
2003-09-29
ISBN
9780525947530

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0525947531
ISBN-13
9780525947530
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2836673

Product Key Features

Book Title
Ig Nobel Prizes
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Language
English
Topic
General, Research
Publication Year
2003
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Reference, Science, Humor
Author
Marc Abrahams
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
12 Oz
Item Length
7.7 in
Item Width
5.6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2003-049081
Dewey Edition
21
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Decimal
502/.07
Table Of Content
Contents Introduction 1 Whatís an Ig? 2 How It Began, Briefly 3 How the Winners Are Chosen 4 The Ceremony 5 Controversy 9 How to Read This Book 12 MEDICAL BREAKTHROUGHS 15 Failure of Electric Shock Treatment for Rattlesnake Envenomation 16 Nose Picking in Adolescents 19 Elevator Music Prevents the Common Cold 23 PSYCHOLOGY aND INTELLIGENCE 27 A Forbidding Experiment: Spitting, Chewing Gum, and Pigeons 28 Ignorance Is Bliss 31 ECONOMICS 35 Squeezing Orange County/ Bringing Down Barings 36 The Good Lloydís Shepherds Insure Disaster 40 Dying to Save Taxes 43 Enronóand Then Some (and Then None) 46 PEACEóDIPLOMACY AND PERSUASION 51 The Levitating Crime Fighters 52 Daryl Gates, the Gandhi of Los Angeles 55 Stalin World 59 PEACEFUL EJACULATIONS AND EXPLOSIONS 63 Booming Voices of Britain 64 Father of the Bomb 67 Pacific Kaboom 70 LOVE AND/OR REPRODUCTION 73 The Compulsive Biochemistry of Love 74 High-Velocity Birth 78 Taking Fatherhood in Hand 82 Insert Here 86 Height, Penile Length, and Foot Size 90 DISCOVERIESóBASIC SCIENCE 93 The Happiness of Clams 94 Cold Fusion in Chickens 97 Mini-Dinosaurs, Mini-Princesses 101 The Remembrance of Water Passed 106 DISCOVERIESóTHINGS THAT rise OR fall 111 Injuries Due to Falling Coconuts 112 The Fall of Buttered Toast 116 The Collapse of Toilets in Glasgow 120 Levitating Frogs 124 TROY and THE GRIZZLY BEAR 127 Troy and the Grizzly Bear 128 INVENTIONS 133 The Most Inventive Salesman 134 The Kitty and the Keyboard 138 Patenting the Wheel 141 HELLISH TECHNICALITIES 145 Who Is Going to Hell 146 Mikhail Gorbachev Is the Antichrist 149 SCENTS AND SENSIBILITY 155 The Self-Perfuming Business Suit 156 Filter-Equipped Underwear 159 FOOD FOR THOUGHT 163 Extremely Instant Barbecue 164 Sogginess at Breakfast 167 The Effects of Ale, Garlic, and Soured Cream on the Appetite of Leeches 170 No Need for Food 174 How to Make a Cup of Tea, Officially 178 The Sociology of Canadian Donut Shops 183 The Optimal Way to Dunk a Biscuit 186 EDUCATION 191 Banning the Beaker 192 Deepak Chopra 195 Dan Quayle 199 LITERATURE 201 976 Coauthors in Search of a Title 202 The Father of Junk E-mail 204 APP : ICES 209 Year-by-Year List of Winners 210 How to Nominate Someone 229 The Web Site 231 About the Annals of Improbable Research 232 Acknowledgments 234 Index 237
Synopsis
A sidesplitting compendium that pays tribute to those individuals whose scientific achievements cannot or should not be reproduced. Everyone knows about the Nobel Prizes, those prestigious awards that recognize the world's most talented and innovative minds. Unfortunately, not all of the hopeful thinkers and academics around the globe can become Nobel Laureates, but some are lucky enough to win the esteemed Ig Nobel Prizeinstead. Their unbelievable accomplishments are now documented in glorious detail in The Ig Nobel Prizes: The Annals of Improbable Research. Drawn from the world's wackiest actual scientific research, The Ig Nobel Prizesdemonstrates the extreme measures people will take in the quest for knowledge. Recent Ig Nobel honorees include: * The professor who won the Ig Nobel Prize in Physics for a study proving that toast falls buttered side down more often. * The Southern Baptist Church of Alabama, which won the Ig Nobel Prize in Mathematics for devising a formula to determine how many Alabamans will go to Hell. * The Australian man who successfully patented the wheel, and the Australian Patent Office that granted it. For this act, they were jointly awarded the Ig Nobel Prize in Technology. This hilarious book features these endeavors and many more, along with photographs from the annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremonies at Harvard University. An entertaining exhibition of brains and determination, The Ig Nobel Prizesis the ideal gift for anyone who first wants to laugh and then wants to think.
LC Classification Number
Q173.A18 2003

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