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2012 Ignobels...
« on: September 21, 2012, 09:37:04 AM »
The Ignobels came out today: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/sep/21/ig-nobel-awards-dead-salmon?CMP=twt_fd


My personal favorite, and most in the spirit of the ignobels:

http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-12-480R

"Actions Needed to Evaluate the Impact of Efforts to Estimate Costs of Reports and Studies"

Ignobel for Literature.

This one, however, is just... I have no words:

http://www.emory.edu/LIVING_LINKS/pdf_attachments/FacesBehinds2008.pdf

(If you don't want to read the whole summary, here it is in brief:

Anatomy prize: Frans de Waal and Jennifer Pokorny, for discovering that chimpanzees can identify specific other chimpanzees from seeing photographs of their rear ends.)

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Re: 2012 Ignobels...
« Reply #1 on: September 21, 2012, 10:21:12 AM »
I'm sure that last one will become the butt of many jokes........................ [popcorn]
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Re: 2012 Ignobels...
« Reply #2 on: September 21, 2012, 11:01:56 AM »
damn dirty apes
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Re: 2012 Ignobels...
« Reply #3 on: September 21, 2012, 12:42:20 PM »
A few of these sound silly at first, but it appears they actually have some application or purpose.
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Re: 2012 Ignobels...
« Reply #4 on: September 21, 2012, 05:57:36 PM »
i want to shout out for the medicine IgNobel: how to keep your colon from exploding during a colonoscopy.

MEDICINE PRIZE: Emmanuel Ben-Soussan and Michel Antonietti [FRANCE] for advising doctors who perform colonoscopies how to minimize the chance that their patients will explode.
REFERENCE: "Colonic Gas Explosion During Therapeutic Colonoscopy with Electrocautery," Spiros D Ladas, George Karamanolis, Emmanuel Ben-Soussan, World Journal of Gastroenterology, vol. 13, no. 40, October 2007, pp. 5295–8.
REFERENCE: "Argon Plasma Coagulation in the Treatment of Hemorrhagic Radiation Proctitis is Efficient But Requires a Perfect Colonic Cleansing to Be Safe," E. Ben-Soussan, M. Antonietti, G. Savoye, S. Herve, P. Ducrotté, and E. Lerebours, European Journal of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, vol. 16, no. 12, December 2004, pp 1315-8.
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Re: 2012 Ignobels...
« Reply #5 on: September 21, 2012, 06:14:35 PM »
It would be interesting to find out how much of the Nobel prize issuance goes to government sponsored and funded recipients.
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Re: 2012 Ignobels...
« Reply #6 on: September 21, 2012, 06:18:04 PM »
Quote from: MillCreek on September 21, 2012, 05:57:36 PM
i want to shout out for the medicine IgNobel: how to keep your colon from exploding during a colonoscopy.

MEDICINE PRIZE: Emmanuel Ben-Soussan and Michel Antonietti [FRANCE] for advising doctors who perform colonoscopies how to minimize the chance that their patients will explode.
REFERENCE: "Colonic Gas Explosion During Therapeutic Colonoscopy with Electrocautery," Spiros D Ladas, George Karamanolis, Emmanuel Ben-Soussan, World Journal of Gastroenterology, vol. 13, no. 40, October 2007, pp. 5295–8.
REFERENCE: "Argon Plasma Coagulation in the Treatment of Hemorrhagic Radiation Proctitis is Efficient But Requires a Perfect Colonic Cleansing to Be Safe," E. Ben-Soussan, M. Antonietti, G. Savoye, S. Herve, P. Ducrotté, and E. Lerebours, European Journal of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, vol. 16, no. 12, December 2004, pp 1315-8.

And just how often does this happen ?  :O
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Re: 2012 Ignobels...
« Reply #7 on: September 21, 2012, 06:27:28 PM »
Quote from: Tallpine on September 21, 2012, 06:18:04 PM
And just how often does this happen ?  :O

Intracolonic explosion...   here is a case study:  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17019761
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Re: 2012 Ignobels...
« Reply #8 on: September 21, 2012, 09:32:01 PM »
Quote from: 41magsnub on September 21, 2012, 06:27:28 PM
Intracolonic explosion...   here is a case study:  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17019761

Yeah ...

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We describe this dramatic event in our patient and discuss whether this complication might be avoidable in the future.

"... this complication ..."? THAT should win a rand prize in a euphemism contest.
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Re: 2012 Ignobels...
« Reply #9 on: September 22, 2012, 11:22:20 AM »
Quote from: 41magsnub on September 21, 2012, 06:27:28 PM
Intracolonic explosion...   here is a case study:  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17019761

I don't want to know any more, except to stay far far away from MDs.
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Re: 2012 Ignobels...
« Reply #10 on: September 22, 2012, 12:25:05 PM »
Quote from: Tallpine on September 22, 2012, 11:22:20 AM
I don't want to know any more, except to stay far far away from MDs.


Because otherwise your colon might explode....
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Re: 2012 Ignobels...
« Reply #11 on: September 22, 2012, 01:38:57 PM »
Nothing beats Paul Krugman with a bra wrapped around his head from a couple years ago.  He's a total boob, and there are pictures to prove it.
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Re: 2012 Ignobels...
« Reply #12 on: September 22, 2012, 07:51:21 PM »
Quote from: 41magsnub on September 21, 2012, 06:27:28 PM
Intracolonic explosion...   here is a case study:  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17019761

"Armageddon!"
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Re: 2012 Ignobels...
« Reply #13 on: September 23, 2012, 10:38:30 AM »
Intracolonic explosions.... still more deserving of a real Nobel prizee than Obama or Gore.   [popcorn]
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Re: 2012 Ignobels...
« Reply #14 on: September 23, 2012, 08:56:34 PM »
Quote from: Tallpine on September 21, 2012, 06:18:04 PM
And just how often does this happen ?  :O

I'm thinking once would be way too many times.
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Re: 2012 Ignobels...
« Reply #15 on: September 23, 2012, 08:57:46 PM »
Quote from: kgbsquirrel on September 23, 2012, 10:38:30 AM
Intracolonic explosions.... still more deserving of a real Nobel prizee than Obama or Gore.   [popcorn]

So is the chimp butt recognition study. =(
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