{"id":271,"date":"2009-10-02T18:08:42","date_gmt":"2009-10-02T23:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/?p=271"},"modified":"2009-10-02T18:08:42","modified_gmt":"2009-10-02T23:08:42","slug":"2009-ig-nobel-prize-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/2009-ig-nobel-prize-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"2009 Ig Nobel prize winners!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some interesting work here, the full winner list is available from their <a href=\"http:\/\/improbable.com\/ig\/winners\/#ig2009\">website:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>PEACE PRIZE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Stephan Bolliger, Steffen Ross, Lars Oesterhelweg, Michael           Thali and Beat Kneubuehl of the University of Bern, Switzerland, for           determining \u2014 by experiment \u2014 whether it is better to be           smashed over the head with a full bottle of beer or with an empty bottle.<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">REFERENCE:<\/span> &#8220;Are Full or Empty Beer Bottles Sturdier and Does Their           Fracture-Threshold Suffice to Break the Human Skull?&#8221; Stephan           A. Bolliger, Steffen Ross, Lars Oesterhelweg, Michael J. Thali and           Beat P. Kneubuehl, Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine, vol. 16,           no. 3, April 2009, pp. 138-42.<\/p>\n<p><strong>VETERINARY MEDICINE PRIZE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Catherine Douglas and Peter Rowlinson of           Newcastle University, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, UK, for showing that cows           who have names give more milk than cows that are nameless.<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">REFERENCE:<\/span> &#8220;Exploring Stock Managers&#8217; Perceptions of the Human-Animal           Relationship on Dairy Farms and an Association with Milk Production,&#8221; Catherine           Bertenshaw [Douglas] and Peter Rowlinson, Anthrozoos, vol. 22, no.           1, March 2009, pp. 59-69.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ECONOMICS PRIZE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The directors, executives, and auditors of four Icelandic           banks \u2014 Kaupthing Bank, Landsbanki, Glitnir Bank, and Central           Bank of Iceland \u2014 for demonstrating that tiny banks can be rapidly           transformed into huge banks, and vice versa \u2014 and for demonstrating           that similar things can be done to an entire national economy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MEDICINE PRIZE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Donald L. Unger, of Thousand Oaks, California, USA,           for investigating a possible cause of arthritis of the fingers, by           diligently cracking the knuckles of his left hand \u2014 but never           cracking the knuckles of his right hand \u2014 every day for more           than sixty (60) years.<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">REFERENCE:<\/span> &#8220;Does Knuckle Cracking Lead to Arthritis of the Fingers?&#8221;,           Donald L. Unger, Arthritis and Rheumatism, vol. 41, no. 5, 1998, pp.           949-50.<\/p>\n<p><strong>LITERATURE PRIZE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ireland&#8217;s police service (An Garda Siochana), for           writing and presenting more than fifty traffic tickets to the most           frequent driving offender in the country \u2014 Prawo Jazdy \u2014 whose           name in Polish means &#8220;Driving License&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MATHEMATICS PRIZE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gideon Gono, governor of Zimbabwe\u2019s Reserve           Bank, for giving people a simple, everyday way to cope with a wide           range of numbers \u2014 from very small to very big \u2014 by having           his bank print bank notes with denominations ranging from one cent           ($.01) to one hundred trillion dollars ($100,000,000,000,000).<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">REFERENCE:<\/span> Zimbabwe&#8217;s Casino Economy \u2014\u00a0Extraordinary Measures           for Extraordinary Challenges, Gideon Gono, ZPH Publishers, Harare,           2008, ISBN 978-079-743-679-4.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some interesting work here, the full winner list is available from their website: PEACE PRIZE Stephan Bolliger, Steffen Ross, Lars Oesterhelweg, Michael Thali and Beat Kneubuehl of the University of Bern, Switzerland, for determining \u2014 by experiment \u2014 whether it is better to be smashed over the head with a full bottle of beer or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,68,6],"tags":[453],"class_list":["post-271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faisharing","category-fun","category-news","tag-ig-nobel-prize"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274,"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions\/274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}