ground breaking medical research

[jverne]

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17662

very peculiar may i say

 

[Krynn72]

I thought this was going to be a play on words, and that the news about be about a new scientific way of breaking up earthly matter.

Instead its about xray sex.


I approve.

 

[lefty]

They got a nobel prize for that? What the ****

 

[Au-heppa]

Ig Nobel. Ig Nobel. Big difference to Nobel.

 

[lefty]

Ignobel? Is that like the opposite of nobel?

 

[mindless_moder]

Ignobel? Is that like the opposite of nobel?

Exactly , Its kind of like the Darwin awards of scientific research . Also MRI ! = X-RAY .

 

[Au-heppa]

Something like that

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

Some of them are quite hilarious. l. Ron Hubbard was also given an Ig Nobel, but for some reason he didn't come to pick it up.

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