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The Ig Nobel prizes have been awarded. Go to CNN for the explanations, because the Annals of Improbable Research, which awards them, is hammered with traffic.
A contender in the future has to be this piece of British research: Sick leave ‘link to early death’. According to the BBC story they have discovered: people who get sick die before people who don’t. [I blame it on the break down in extended families – normally your grandmother would explain this to you, usually after the death of a pet.]
