Comments on: Ig Nobel Prizes Awarded

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 00:17:49 +0000

Before requesting the funding maybe they should sleep on it.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 21:24:52 +0000

‘Scuse me while I go change my sheets. It’s Biology, not Physics, that concerns me.

Next: Dr. van Bronswijk and that team from Barcelona combine efforts, attempting to speak Dutch and, um, probably Spanish backwards to “mites, insects, spiders, ferns and fungi” (oh my!). My prediction: they do no better than rats on the test.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 17:16:26 +0000

Actually, if you have heard a reasonable amount of spoken Dutch and spoken Japanese it isn’t that difficult to tell the difference, but rats don’t have the same range of hearing, so it was a fool’s errand unless they used sopranos.

You have to wonder how many “jet-set” hamsters there are in the world.

By: jams o donnell

jams o donnell — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 13:53:54 +0000

Hipparchia has a point. If we humans have difficulty in that area, how much harder is it for rats?

Finding that viagara aids jetlag in hamsters is truly groundbreaking work

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 05:39:19 +0000

i can't tell the difference between a person speaking Japanese backwards and somebody speaking Dutch backwards.