2015 Ig Nobel Prizes Honor Bee Stings, Elephant Urination 30
sciencehabit writes: The Ig Nobel prizes award research that 'makes people laugh, and then think', and this year was no exception. At a ceremony at Harvard University Thursday night, awards were given for a variety of wacky science papers. Among the winners, a scientist who repeatedly had himself stung by bees to figure out the most painful place in the body to be stung, and a study of which animals take the longest to urinate.
Most Painful Place (Score:1)
Was it the penis? I bet it was the penis.
Clicking is hard (Score:4, Informative)
The first line of TFA: The nostril, the lips, and the shaft of the penis.
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if your penis has lips and a nostril, you have bigger problems than bee stings.
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There was a young man of Tralee
Who was stung in the neck by a wasp
When they said "Does it hurt?"
He said "No, not a bit
It can do it again if it likes"
This is close to the Original, variously attributed to Gilbert or Shaw, but it is in fact part of a Irish Music Hall routine involving a Doctor, a Priest, and an Undertaker, and predates the Great Hunger. This is probably the cleanest version. One step down was "There was a young man born in Knock..."
Captcha: banned
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Klingons go more for Haiku. (They pronounce "Haiku" with four syllables, and they use a punctuation mark not in the Slashdot character set.)
Kahless stung by wasp
Swears, then regains dignity
"Good tea and nice house"
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Worf, the son of Mog
Truly hates birthday parties
Likes pain stick better
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Is he different from the Worf, son of Mogh?
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Normally Haiku must mention one of the four seasons. But Klingon has only one season. So awaiting a ruling from the High Haiku Council.
I thought the golden rule was... (Score:4, Funny)
only pee on others if they pee on you.
Re: I thought the golden rule was... (Score:5, Informative)
No, that's the golden shower rule.
makes you wonder (Score:1)
Auto-erotic masochism perhaps?
Taking the piss (Score:2)
or perhaps just measuring it!
The Law of Urination (Score:3)
Quirks and Quarks covered the Urination [www.cbc.ca] story back in 2013.
Huh? (Score:4, Insightful)
That's all I got to say about their literature prize.
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in more ways than one. It appears to be linguistics, not literature.
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Eh?
Study of stings was flawed (Score:1)
Women were not included in the study design, and it was not race insensitive.
For all we know, there could be different reactions, based on pain response, just as people from some regions can't tolerate milk or alcohol, while others can.
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Women were not included in the study design, and it was not race insensitive.
For all we know, there could be different reactions, based on pain response, just as people from some regions can't tolerate milk or alcohol, while others can.
Sounds to me like you want to be stung on the penis. Go ahead and let us all know how that turns out for you.
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I was kind of hoping you would volunteer as a male subject, while I would volunteer as a control (no stings)
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That would possibly be the most amusing/horrifying Human Subjects Committee review ever.
Re:65 year old scientists (Score:5, Funny)
Did they include 65 year old male scientists in their urination study?
Partly. Most were unable to participate because they interrupted the study too frequently.
So, in a word ... [*sunglasses*] ... depends.