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A good friend of mine wins an Ig Nobel prize
Quote:The winners have all done things that first make people LAUGH, then make them THINK.Quote:BIOLOGY: Bart Knols (of Wageningen Agricultural University, in Wageningen, the Netherlands; and of the National Institute for Medical Research, in Ifakara Centre, Tanzania, and of the International Atomic Energy Agency, in Vienna Austria) and Ruurd de Jong (of Wageningen Agricultural University and of Santa Maria degli Angeli, Italy) 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.
REFERENCE: "On Human Odour, Malaria Mosquitoes, and Limburger Cheese," Bart. G.J. Knols, The Lancet, vol. 348 , November 9, 1996, p. 1322.
REFERENCE: “Behavioural and electrophysiological responses of the female malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae (Diptera: Culicidae) to Limburger cheese volatiles,â€this is kinda science related, acquatic worm…
Quote:Fossil Named for Motorhead’s Lemmy
Posted Oct 9th 2006 1:29PM by David SpragueWe’ve always thought of Lemmy as something of a scientist’s dream, what with the potential finds that could be made excavating even one of those moles.
In an apparent attempt to curry favor with Motorhead’s main man — and increase the potential he’ll donate his body to science once he’s finally killed by death — a professor of Paleontology at Sweden’s Lund University has named a newly discovered fossil after Mr. Kilmister.
The fossil — the one unearthed in Scandinavia , not the one that plays bass in Motorhead — is of an aquatic worm estimated to be 428 million years old, or roughly two decades older than Lemmy himself. Dr. Mats E. Eriksson said his the decision to name Kalloprion Kilmisteri was a snap for him as "a longtime fan of the musical genre, the band and a professor of paleontology." We tip our hat to the ol’ Ace of Spades for entering company that, by our unscientific count, is much more exclusive than, say, the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame. Still, we can’t help but wonder how Dr. Eriksson could dig up something so vile and squirmy without thinking of Gary Glitter first.
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