2001 Ig Nobel Awards

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2001 Ig Nobel Awards

> Awarded annually for dubious scholarly research

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> BIOLOGY

> Buck Weimer of Pueblo, Colorado for inventing Under-Ease, Under-Tec Corp's

new product to eliminate the foul odor caused by

> flatulence. Under-Ease are a patented protective airtight underwear with a

specially designed pocket with replaceable multi-layered

> charcoal filter that removes bad-smelling gases before they escape.

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> ECONOMICS

> Slemrod, of the University of Michigan Business School, and Wojciech

Kopczuk, of University of British Columbia, for their

> conclusion that people find a way to postpone their deaths if that that

would qualify them for a lower rate on the inheritance tax.

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> LITERATURE

> s of Boston, England, founder of The Apostrophe Protection

Society, for his efforts to protect, promote, and defend the

> differences between plural and possessive.

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> PSYCHOLOGY

> Lawrence W. Sherman of Miami University, Ohio, for his influential

research report " An Ecological Study of Glee in Small Groups of

> Preschool Children. "

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> ASTROPHYSICS

> Dr. Jack and Rexella Van Impe of Jack Van Impe Ministries, Rochester

Hills, Michigan, for their discovery that black holes fulfill

> all the technical requirements to be the location of Hell.

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> TECHNOLOGY

> Awarded jointly to Keogh of Hawthorn, , Australia, for

patenting the wheel in the year 2001, and to the Australian

> Patent Office for granting him Innovation Patent #2001100012.

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> PUBLIC HEALTH

> Chittaranjan Andrade and B.S. Srihari of the National Institute of Mental

Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore, India, for their

> probing medical discovery that nose picking is a common activity among

adolescents.

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> I like these things.

> Cheers, BSP

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