The annual awards for quirky scientific research were given out this week, and as usual, they blended the bizarre, humorous, and unexpectedly insightful.
True to their name, the Ig Nobel prizes are amusing at first glance. But bother to read further and you’ll find surprising insights about our own species and/or the world we inhabit.Consider the “taxonomy of taste” outlined by the prize winner in Chemistry and Geology, for his work “.” At first glance, it is a silly notion to try biting into such hardened remains.
“One could then, it seems, literally develop a taste for stratigraphy,” Zalasiewicz added. Some of the Ig Nobel winners developed technologies—whether from
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