Ig Nobel Prizes 2009 awarded

The 2009 Ig Nobel Prizes 'for achievements that first make people LAUGH then make them THINK' were awarded on 1st October in Boston.
Favourites this year are the Veterinary Medicine Prize for showing that cows who have names give more milk than cows that are nameless (Anthrozoos, vol. 22, no. 1, March 2009, pp. 59-69) and the prize for Physics for analytically determining why pregnant women don't tip over (Nature, vol. 450, 1075-1078, December 13, 2007)

--- Michael ---