IgNobel Prizes 2015

[User169]

Some crackers as usual..

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/sep/18/ig-nobel-prizes-2015

 

[Markymark]

Someone wanted to unboil an egg. Genius.

 

[User169]

Someone wanted to unboil an egg. Genius.

That one I could see as being pretty important. There must be quite a few potential applications for unscrambling proteins.

There's a reddit AMA here with the lead scientist...

https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/2tu16v/science_ama_series_im_gregory_weiss_uc_irvine/

 

[winjim]

Someone wanted to unboil an egg. Genius.

Boiled eggs are minging. At least raw eggs you can make into a cake.

 

[marknotgeorge]

I think some male scientists are just looking for an excuse to get their willies out.

Yerwot? When that boffin testing how painful beestings are is about?

 

[User482]

Andre Geim managed to win an Ig Nobel and a Nobel prize. From levitating frogs to graphene...

 

[Markymark]

I dare say the knowledge and research are very similar. The amusement is in the seemingly pointless nature of the hypotheses. However great innovation can come by chance in seemingly unrelated research so all should be applauded.