What I found way more fun, was what the ABC news nicely headed "Watching paint dry": two guys from UQ in Brisbane devoted their entire life to an experiment as exciting as, *drum roll*, watching pitch drops drop. Which. doesn't. happen. very. often. The experiment started in 1927, and one of the fellows already died - of boredom, I assume. The IgNobel fellows thought this commitment worth the physics prize.
Hehe. Two of this year's IgNobel prizes have been awarded
to Australian academics: one team got the biology prize
for figuring out that stressed frogs stink differently from normal frogs.
(But hey, they also found an pigeon-be-gone smell that seems to work.)
