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Thursday, October 04, 2007
Ig Nobel Update They're going on even as we speak. So far, among the announced prizes, this is the most intriguing to me: 'Linguistics -- Juan Manuel Toro, Josep B. Trobalon and Nuria Sebastian-Galles, of Universitat de Barcelona -- for a study showing rats sometimes fail to distinguish between a person speaking Japanese backwards and a person speaking Dutch backwards.' |