Ig Noble. You Noble. He, She, It Nobles.

YAY... 2009 Ig Noble winners were chosen. What research is in the winner circle this year?

• Veternary Medicine Prize: cows who have names give more milk than cows that are nameless
• Peace Prize: determining — by experiment — whether it is better to be smashed over the head with a full bottle of beer or with an empty bottle
• Chemistry Prize: creating diamonds from liquid — specifically from tequila
• Physics Prize: analytically determining why pregnant women don't tip over
• Public Health Prize: inventing a brassiere that, in an emergency, can be quickly converted into a pair of protective face masks, one for the brassiere wearer and one to be given to some needy bystander

WOOT!