The 2015 25th 1st Annual Ig Nobel Prizes (with geographical annotation)
Whoo, boy. Some really groovy, gnarly, bitchin' research was honored last week at what is becoming the penultimate red carpet event in the wonderful world of science. The 25th 1st Annual Ig Nobel Prizes were announced on the 17th with much fanfare and hoopla. Nothing as funny as in the 24th 1st Annual Ig Nobels. It's hard to top stuffing salted pork up your nose to stop bleeding - which is why you now see professional boxers with containers of salted pork in their corners during matches. Now then, because most Americans barely know U.S. geography (other than a few 4th grade nerds who knew all 48 state capitals back in the fifties), we try to explain where all of the various geographical locations are to be found referenced to the few places that the typical American knows the location of in terms we hope they will sort of comprehend. CHEMISTRY PRIZE — Callum Ormonde and Colin Raston of Australia, an island continent (it's still being argued which it is) and Tom ...