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Special Awards

The Darwin Awards

Among the less serious awards, we find the Darwin Awards for those who have made themselves a name by finding really stupid ways of killing themselves:

The Ig Noble awards

is the ultimate reward for scientific endeavours best forgotten and never reproduced. These scientific results are presented in the volume

The Ig Nobel Prizes: The Annals of Improbable Research

Among the highlights(?) one could mention the following:

  • The First Case of Homosexual Necrophilia in the Mallard Anas platyrhynchos (Aves: Anatidae)
  • An Analysis of the Forces Required to Drag Sheep over Various Surfaces
  • Scrotal Asymmetry in Man and in Ancient Sculpture
  • The Possible Pain Experienced During Execution by Different Methods
  • Chicken Plucking as Measure of Tornado Wind Speed
  • Effect of Ale, Garlic, and Soured Cream on the Appetite of Leeches
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