Tuesday, October 14, 2008

All the hard work pays off

Hey! Guess what! I won the Nobel Prize!

I gotta give the guys in Stockholm a call back, though, because we were disconnected before I could hear the field for which they had chosen to honor me. I mean, take your pick.

Among the diverse areas acknowledged last year?

2007



Aviation: Patricia V. Agostino, Santiago A. Plano and Diego A. Golombek, for discovering that hamsters recover from jetlag more quickly when given Viagra.




Biology: Johanna E.M.H. van Bronswijk, for taking a census of all the mites and other life forms that live in people's beds.


Chemistry: Mayu Yamamoto for extracting vanilla flavour from cow dung.



Economics: Kuo Cheng Hsieh, for patenting a device to catch bank robbers by ensnaring them in a net.



Linguistics: Juan Manuel Toro, Josep B. Trobalon and Nuria Sebastian-Galles, for determining that rats sometimes can't distinguish between recordings of Japanese and Dutch played backward.



Literature: Glenda Browne, for her study into indexing words that start with the word "the".



Medicine: Dan Meyer and Brian Witcombe, for investigating the side-effects of swallowing swords.



Nutrition:
Brian Wansink, for investigating people's appetite for mindless eating by secretly feeding them a self-refilling bowl of soup.



Peace: The Air Force Wright Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio, for suggesting the research and development of a "gay bomb," which would cause enemy troops to become sexually attracted to each other.



Physics: L. Mahadevan and Enrique Cerda Villablanca for their theoretical study of how sheets become wrinkled.

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