Here you can see the famous Ig Nobel Awards.
MEDICINE: Francis M. Fesmire for his medical case report “Termination of Intractable Hiccups with Digital Rectal Massage”; and Majed Odeh, Harry Bassan, and Arie Oliven for their subsequent medical case report also titled “Termination of Intractable Hiccups with Digital Rectal Massage.”
The patent for hiccups cure should be awarded to Steve Jobs… The Mac is the digital machine that cures hiccups in the first place. (not yet rectal 
)
ORNITHOLOGY: Ivan R. Schwaband and the late Philip R.A. May for exploring and explaining why woodpeckers don’t get headaches.
Woodpeckers with a headache… at last a piece of research that makes sense. In fact I care much more about headaches than how Universe was formed.When the creation of Universe stops giving me a headache maybe I ll think about it again.
BIOLOGY: Bart Knols and Ruurd de Jong for showing that the female malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae is attracted equally to the smell of limburger cheese and to the smell of human feet.
Even if you can’t get a girlfriend due to unpleasant feet odour, no need to worry. You can get a date named Anopheles gambiae. That’s a cool name. Nobody cares if it’s a mosquito after all.
CHEMISTRY: Antonio Mulet, José Javier Benedito and José Bon and Carmen Rosselló for their study “Ultrasonic Velocity in Cheddar Cheese as Affected by Temperature.”
Ultrasonic velocity of cheddar and temperature? Is there anything we need to know before using this cheese? “This recipe is gonna blow you away! “
(Steve Jobs was talking about transition to Intel CPUs, in WWDC 2006)
I am a libertarian planning to write my thoughts about almost everything here. I also enjoy high tech and networks.
