Australian scientists who discovered that delaying a trip to the toilet causes people to make bad decisions and that a species of beetle makes love to a beer bottle are among the winners at this year’s IgNobel Prizes.
The IgNobels are awarded each year by the Harvard-based Annals of Improbable Research as a light-hearted counterpart to the Nobel Prizes, which will be awarded next week.
The prizes are intended to celebrate the unusual, honour the imaginative, and spur people’s interest in science, medicine and technology — once they stop laughing.
Most of the winning researchers appear happy to go along with the joke — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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