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The Ig Nobel prizes : rewarding the world's unlikeliest research
Abrahams, Marc.
Adult Nonfiction 502.07 A
Abrahams, Marc.
Adult Nonfiction 502.07 A
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| Contents | Page |
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| Introduction | p. 1 |
| What's an Ig? | p. 2 |
| How It Began, Briefly | p. 3 |
| How the Winners Are Chosen | p. 4 |
| The Ceremony | p. 5 |
| Controversy | p. 9 |
| How to Read This Book | p. 12 |
| Medical Breakthroughs | p. 15 |
| Failure of Electric Shock Treatment for Rattlesnake Envenomation | p. 16 |
| Nose Picking in Adolescents | p. 19 |
| Elevator Music Prevents the Common Cold | p. 23 |
| Psychology and Intelligence | p. 27 |
| A Forbidding Experiment: Spitting, Chewing Gum, and Pigeons | p. 28 |
| Ignorance Is Bliss | p. 31 |
| Economics | p. 35 |
| Squeezing Orange County/Bringing Down Barings | p. 36 |
| The Good Lloyd's Shepherds Insure Disaster | p. 40 |
| Dying to Save Taxes | p. 43 |
| Enron--and Then Some (and Then None) | p. 46 |
| Peace--Diplomacy and Persuasion | p. 51 |
| The Levitating Crime Fighters | p. 52 |
| Daryl Gates, the Gandhi of Los Angeles | p. 55 |
| Stalin World | p. 59 |
| Peaceful Ejaculations and Explosions | p. 63 |
| Booming Voices of Britain | p. 64 |
| Father of the Bomb | p. 67 |
| Pacific Kaboom | p. 70 |
| Love and/or Reproduction | p. 73 |
| The Compulsive Biochemistry of Love | p. 74 |
| High-Velocity Birth | p. 78 |
| Taking Fatherhood in Hand | p. 82 |
| Insert Here | p. 86 |
| Height, Penile Length, and Foot Size | p. 90 |
| Discoveries--Basic Science | p. 93 |
| The Happiness of Clams | p. 94 |
| Cold Fusion in Chickens | p. 97 |
| Mini-Dinosaurs, Mini-Princesses | p. 101 |
| The Remembrance of Water Passed | p. 106 |
| Discoveries--Things That Rise or Fall | p. 111 |
| Injuries Due to Falling Coconuts | p. 112 |
| The Fall of Buttered Toast | p. 116 |
| The Collapse of Toilets in Glasgow | p. 120 |
| Levitating Frogs | p. 124 |
| Troy and the Grizzly Bear | p. 127 |
| Troy and the Grizzly Bear | p. 128 |
| Inventions | p. 133 |
| The Most Inventive Salesman | p. 134 |
| The Kitty and the Keyboard | p. 138 |
| Patenting the Wheel | p. 141 |
| Hellish Technicalities | p. 145 |
| Who Is Going to Hell | p. 146 |
| Mikhail Gorbachev Is the Antichrist | p. 149 |
| Scents and Sensibility | p. 155 |
| The Self-Perfuming Business Suit | p. 156 |
| Filter-Equipped Underwear | p. 159 |
| Food for Thought | p. 163 |
| Extremely Instant Barbecue | p. 164 |
| Sogginess at Breakfast | p. 167 |
| The Effects of Ale, Garlic, and Soured Cream on the Appetite of Leeches | p. 170 |
| No Need for Food | p. 174 |
| How to Make a Cup of Tea, Officially | p. 178 |
| The Sociology of Canadian Donut Shops | p. 183 |
| The Optimal Way to Dunk a Biscuit | p. 186 |
| Education | p. 191 |
| Banning the Beaker | p. 192 |
| Deepak Chopra | p. 195 |
| Dan Quayle | p. 199 |
| Literature | p. 201 |
| 976 Coauthors in Search of a Title | p. 202 |
| The Father of Junk E-mail | p. 204 |
| Appendices | p. 209 |
| Year-by-Year List of Winners | p. 210 |
| How to Nominate Someone | p. 229 |
| The Web Site | p. 231 |
| About the Annals of Improbable Research | p. 232 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 234 |
| Index | p. 237 |
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