Ig Nobels arrive

Ig Nobels award "scientific achievements which "cannot, or should not, be reproduced"." As usual this year's picks are quite something! Here are some of my picks.

Best:
"Literature - The many Nigerians who introduced millions of e-mail users to a "cast of rich characters... each of whom requires just a small amount of expense money so as to obtain access to the great wealth to which they are entitled". "

Zen:
"Physics - John Maidstone from Australia for his part in an experiment that began in 1927 in which a glob of black tar drips through a funnel every nine years. Mr Maidstone shared the prize with a late colleague who died sometime after the second drop."

Bizzare, yet quite successful as I found out from a separate story:
"Medicine - Gregg Miller from the US for his invention of Neuticles - rubber replacement testicles for neutered dogs that are available in varying sizes and degrees of firmness."