fygjam Posted September 15 Share Posted September 15 Ig Nobel prize awards: Animals that can breathe through their backsides, truth about coin flips A raft of awards have been handed out for really bizarre research including how some animals can breathe through their backsides. https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/ig-nobel-prize-awards-animals-that-can-breathe-through-their-backsides-truth-about-coin-flips/news-story/5c8cadeff926b48749324fe120692ff8 Dead fish swimming The physics prize was awarded to US-based scientist James Liao for “demonstrating and explaining the swimming abilities of a dead trout”. “I discovered that a live fish moves more than a dead fish,” Liao said as he accepted the prize. Scaredy cat on cow The biology prize went to the late US-based researchers Fordyce Ely and William E. Petersen for a particularly strange experiment in 1941. They exploded a paper bag next to a cat that was standing on the back of a cow, to “explore how and when cows spew their milk”. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glasseye Posted September 15 Share Posted September 15 18 minutes ago, fygjam said: Ig Nobel prize awards: Animals that can breathe through their backsides, truth about coin flips A raft of awards have been handed out for really bizarre research including how some animals can breathe through their backsides. https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/ig-nobel-prize-awards-animals-that-can-breathe-through-their-backsides-truth-about-coin-flips/news-story/5c8cadeff926b48749324fe120692ff8 Dead fish swimming The physics prize was awarded to US-based scientist James Liao for “demonstrating and explaining the swimming abilities of a dead trout”. “I discovered that a live fish moves more than a dead fish,” Liao said as he accepted the prize. Scaredy cat on cow The biology prize went to the late US-based researchers Fordyce Ely and William E. Petersen for a particularly strange experiment in 1941. They exploded a paper bag next to a cat that was standing on the back of a cow, to “explore how and when cows spew their milk”. 55555555555555555 ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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