2005 Ig Nobel Prizes

The 2005 Ig Nobel prizes have just been announced. As well as some interesting research on penguins’ pressurized poo pellets (go here for more details), I see that the inventor of Neuticles has also been honoured. I wrote about these back in June, when I observed that their success probably plays more upon the human owners’ feelings of inadequacy than any emotion felt by the animal in question.

 

Oh, and talking of feelings of inadequacy, one wonders about the writer of this piece of fanmail to the organisers of the Ig Nobel Awards ceremony…