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2003 Ig Nobel Prize Winners

The whackier the better. For example:

PHYSICS
Jack Harvey, John Culvenor, Warren Payne, Steve Cowley, Michael Lawrance, David Stuart, and Robyn Williams of Australia, for their irresistible report “An Analysis of the Forces Required to Drag Sheep over Various Surfaces.
[PUBLISHED IN: Applied Ergonomics, vol. 33, no. 6, November 2002, pp. 523-31. A copy is available at http://www.culvenor.com/]

Read the full text here. It’s also nice to see that Philip Zimbardo finally got an lg price for his work on Politicians’ Uniquely Simple Personalities. That’s psychology for you.