The Ig Nobel Prize Winners For 2014...
 

If there is a ridiculously questionable field or topic to study, there is a grant, endowment, or subsidy to support the effort. Here are the 2014 Ig Nobel Prize winner:


http://www.improbable.com/ig/winners/#ig2014


For more information on the Ig Nobel Prizes:

http://www.improbable.com/ig/

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/...gh-then-think/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ig_Nobel_Prize


This reminded me about the time, back in the late 60's/early 70's when there was an anti-war/anti-Nixon protest at University of California Berkeley. The police powers that be at the time decided it was a good idea to drop tear gas canisters from a hovering helicopter on the demonstrators. The big problem with this idea was there was a campus hospital nearby and the wind and prop wash blew the gas cloud into the open windows of the hospital adversely affecting the patients and staff. A decision was made to study the incident and the Nixon Administration commissioned a study on the affects of tear gas on public lawns and landscaping...


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The US government and police forces should all be charged with crimes against humanity for their liberal use of chemical warfare against their own citizens.:-? Still, it's not as bad as the Kent State University debacle. They used real bullets out of fear that they'd have flowers shoved in their gun barrels. :hmmm:

At last...just what I've always wanted :doh:

Is that Jim making those motor-boating sounds?...


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LOL :)

One of my instructors was a fresh out of the academy state police officer during that time. He had been tasked to 'defend' a bank in Athens (Ohio University). While standing outside the bank, he had a college girl walk upto him and place a flower in the barrel of his shotgun.