Solid and liquid cats, didgeridoos and cheese disgust scoop Ig Nobel awards
The theoretical treatise, entitled On the Rheology of Cats, argues that cats can technically be regarded as simultaneously solid and liquid due to their uncanny ability to adopt the shape of their container.
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The 10 awards included the peace prize, given to a Swiss team for their discovery that taking up the didgeridoo reduces snoring and the economics prize, which went to an investigation into how contact with a live crocodile affects a persons willingness to gamble. James Heathcote, a GP from Kent, received the anatomy prize for solving the long-standing mystery of why old men have such big ears (they dont keep growing, gravity stretches them).
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Some the patients spouse, for instance might question whether the treatment would simply replace one noise nuisance with another that could prove equally burdensome. But the approach seems to be gaining traction: since the papers publication, one of its authors has switched career to work full-time as a therapeutic didgeridoo instructor and has already taught around 2,500 patients.
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Other recipients include the French neuroscientists who were the first to identify the brain circuits that underpin a hatred for cheese. The brain imaging study, in which people were asked to smell cheddar, goats cheese and gruyère while lying in an MRI scanner, pinpointed a region called the basal ganglia as the neural epicentre of cheese disgust.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/sep/15/solid-and-liquid-cats-didgeridoos-and-cheese-disgust-scoop-ig-nobel-awards
If you didnt win an Ig Nobel prize tonight and especially if you did better luck next year.