Alligator on helium snaps up Ig Nobel prize

[Still Waters]

Have you heard the one about the alligator that performed the party trick of breathing in helium so it could talk in a funny voice?

It's not that hilarious but then you'd be careful never to smile at a crocodilian.

Stephan Reber and colleagues performed the experiment to try to understand how alligators might communicate.

It was a serious piece of research but its slightly comedic aspects have just won the team an Ig Nobel Prize.

Ten such awards were handed out on Thursday by the science humour magazine Annals of Improbable Research.

The annual Igs are intended as a bit of a spoof on the more sober Nobel science prizes.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-54197198

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Scientists win award for giving an alligator helium and making it shout

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/18/us/ig-nobel-awards-alligator-helium-scli-scn-intl/index.html

 

[Cookie Monster]

23 hours ago, Still Waters said:

Have you heard the one about the alligator that performed the party trick of breathing in helium so it could talk in a funny voice?

It's not that hilarious but then you'd be careful never to smile at a crocodilian.

Stephan Reber and colleagues performed the experiment to try to understand how alligators might communicate.

It was a serious piece of research but its slightly comedic aspects have just won the team an Ig Nobel Prize.

Ten such awards were handed out on Thursday by the science humour magazine Annals of Improbable Research.

The annual Igs are intended as a bit of a spoof on the more sober Nobel science prizes.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-54197198

 

Glad to see that Trump shares in a medical award for Covid.

Seems like politics is being kept out of the Nobel Peace prize. He deserves the peace one too.

[Seti42]

Yeah, trump totally deserves this award.