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This year's Ig Noble winners:

Physiology Prize: Anna Wilkinson, from the University of Lincoln, and colleagues for their study in the journal Current Zoology titled "No Evidence of Contagious Yawning in the Red-Footed Tortoise".

Chemistry Prize: A team led from Shiga University, Japan, that determined the ideal density of airborne wasabi to awaken sleeping people in case of a fire or other emergency, and for applying this knowledge to invent the wasabi alarm. Patent pending.

Medicine Prize: Shared by two teams whose independent research jointly established that people make better decisions about some kinds of things, but worse decisions about other kinds of things‚ when they have a strong urge to urinate.

Psychology Prize: Karl Halvor Teigen of the University of Oslo, Norway, for trying to understand why, in everyday life, people sigh.

Literature Prize: John Perry of Stanford University, US, for his Theory of Structured Procrastination, which says: To be a high achiever, always work on something important, using it as a way to avoid doing something that's even more important.

Biology Prize: Darryl Gwynne and David Rentz for discovering that a certain kind of beetle mates with a certain kind of Australian beer bottle. The pair have published two papers on the topic.

Physics Prize: Philippe Perrin and colleagues for determining why discus throwers become dizzy, and why hammer throwers don't.

Peace Prize: Arturas Zuokas, the mayor of Vilnius, Lithuania, for demonstrating that the problem of illegally parked luxury cars can be solved by running them over with an armoured tank.

Public Safety Prize: John Senders of the University of Toronto, Canada, for conducting a series of safety experiments in which a person drives an automobile on a major highway while a visor repeatedly flaps down over his face, blinding him.

Mathematics Prize: Shared by a group of doom-mongers for teaching the world to be careful when making mathematical assumptions and calculations -

Dorothy Martin of the US who predicted the world would end in 1954
Pat Robertson of the US who predicted the world would end in 1982
Elizabeth Clare Prophet of the US who predicted the world would end in 1990
Lee Jang Rim of Korea who predicted the world would end in 1992
Credonia Mwerinde of Uganda who predicted the world would end in 1999
Harold Camping of the US who predicted the world would end in 1994 and then later in 2011

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Hi all,

Back from funeral... sad business...


Leo "Apollo11"

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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

Unlike Spock, I assume all logic will be cast aside? Will you have an equal say in determining furnishings purchased, Bruce or are you just 'window dressing' for the decision?

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Belly up: Did Japan airlines co-pilot accidentally fly aircraft upside down by pressing the wrong button?

By Daily Mail UK


A Japanese airline says one of its jets nose-dived and rolled almost upside down earlier this month because the co-pilot hit the wrong controls while trying to open the cockpit door so the captain could return from a restroom break.

Two flight attendants were slightly hurt and four passengers got airsick when the All Nippon Airways Boeing 737-700 with 117 people aboard descended sharply, veered off course and went belly up over the Pacific on its way from southern Japan to Tokyo on September 6.

ANA said yesterday that the co-pilot is believed to have mistakenly hit the rudder controls instead of the door lock to allow the pilot back in the cockpit.

It said the crew managed to stabilise the plane after the co-pilot's error and land it safely.

Japan's Transport Safety Board is investigating.

A spokesman for the Civil Aviation Authority told MailOnline that there could have been other factors involved in the drama as the banking of an aircraft is actually controlled by foot pedals.

He reassured passengers that airliners can roll heavily and safely, but don't normally rotate more than five degrees 'for the sake of stopping passengers' drinks from spilling'.

He said: 'The angles of bank that most airliners use are very small so that passengers don’t experience any discomfort, but the aircraft can structurally handle much more and have to go through a full certification process before they enter service with ground and air testing.'

Prior Preparation & Planning Prevents Pathetically Poor Performance!

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ORIGINAL: Apollo11

Hi all,

Funeral to attend to...


Leo "Apollo11"

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ORIGINAL: sprior
Hi all,

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ORIGINAL: DivePac88

Evening tithe... Been at the Medical Centre most of the day getting my weekly treatment, my-god I really love the Nurses there, as they even make me proper plunger coffee.

I saw "nurse" then "plunger" and wasn't sure if to go on.

I was "suspicious" of Des as well when I read his post...


Leo "Apollo11"

When you see the Southern Cross, For the first time
You understand now, Why you came this way

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ORIGINAL: BrucePowers

Just as a side note here, I generally follow instructions and keep my seatbelt fastener during flight. I mean the plane is going 500 mph and is usually in excess of 30000 feet in altitude

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Just saw where Legoland in Central Florida opens up on October 15th. It is on the sight of the old Cypress Gardens. Sigh, another piece of Florida history gone.

Kirk Lazarus: I know who I am. I'm the dude playin' the dude, disguised as another dude!
Ron Swanson: Clear alcohols are for rich women on diets.

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UND vs. Regina in exhibition play.