The 2006 Ig Nobel Prize winners were awarded on October 5, at the 16th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, at Harvard’s Sanders Theatre.
http://www.improbable.com/ig/2006/2006-details.html
Follow the link above for the complete list of winners. I was particularly intrigued by the pair of winners in the Medicine category and their novel cure for hiccups…
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Good news for the vast majority of female readers of this blog!
Smart, rich women more likely to have orgasms, study suggests
SCOTT DEVEAU
Globe and Mail Update
October 4/06
http://tinyurl.com/msy93
“(…) According to revealing new research, heterosexual women with graduate degrees are more likely to reach orgasm than their less educated counterparts. There is also a higher incident of orgasm in women who speak English at home, have a higher household income or hold a managerial or professional job, the Australian study found. Confirming a widely held belief, the research also found that men were far more likely than women to experience an orgasm during their last sexual encounter, 98.4 per cent and 68.9 per cent respectively. (well, duh. I just wonder about the 1.6%)
HOWEVER…
Smart, rich women more likely to have poor taste in men, Common Sense suggests.
http://tinyurl.com/pw2em
And what about smart, rich men with questionable tastes?
http://tinyurl.com/lbt7r
(Yeah, it *was* difficult for me to use the word “smart” in reference to the former Leafs’ head goon, but then again, he’s 36 years old and he’s worth more than ten of us regular folks put together, even after Leanne gets through with him, so there.)