Hey, the Ig Nobles are on again!!
True Science at it's most wackiest

- Another Ig Nobel prize this year has been won by researchers who made knives out of frozen human poop.

They wanted to test a long-standing and widely cited anthropological account of an old Indigenous Inuit man, who found himself on the Arctic ice without tools so he made a knife out of his own frozen faeces.

Their study showed the knives were pretty useless.

"Since publication, this story has been told and retold in documentaries, books, and across internet websites and message boards," the researchers wrote in their study.

"While much research has shown foragers to be technologically resourceful, innovative, and savvy, we suggest that this ethnographic account should no longer be used to support that narrative."

- Giving an alligator the 'mickey mouse' effect with helium gas

Another Ig Nobel winner was a team that got an alligator to inhale helium gas — actually a mix of helium and oxygen called 'heliox' — to see what effect it had on its growl.

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https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/09 ... el-prizes/

The old Russian Gulag Prison Shiv

A much needed answer to an unasked question.

I remember reading a story about someone in Russia who was murdered, the inquest saying it was by a long sharp object jammed into his ear and into the brain, but they didnt find the weapon, only a puddle of water. Cant remember if it was a news story or fiction. Either way, the perfect crime - no weapon, no fingerprints....

A Roald Dhal story has a wife killing her husband with a large frozen joint of beef. She put it in the oven cooked it then phoned the police and fed them some while they investigated.

Police don’t need to find a murder weapon to convict, or even a body, so all your stories and anecdotes are superfluous.

tightenupvolume1 wrote: ↑Tue Sep 22, 2020 3:23 pm A Roald Dhal story has a wife killing her husband with a large frozen joint of beef. She put it in the oven cooked it then phoned the police and fed them some while they investigated.

“Lamb to the Slaughter”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamb_to_the_Slaughter

Full story:

http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/lamb.html