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    BBC News - Beetle's beer bottle sex wins Ig Nobel Prize

    Ig Nobel award time. Some crackers in there.

    Chemistry Prize: A team led from Shiga University, Japan, that determined the ideal density of airborne wasabi to awaken sleeping people in case of a fire or other emergency, and for applying this knowledge to invent the wasabi alarm. Patent pending.
    Medicine Prize: Shared by two teams whose independent research jointly established that people make better decisions about some kinds of things, but worse decisions about other kinds of things‚ when they have a strong urge to urinate.
    And my personal favourite of this years awards:

    Literature Prize: John Perry of Stanford University, US, for his Theory of Structured Procrastination, which says: To be a high achiever, always work on something important, using it as a way to avoid doing something that's even more important.
    Which I think is actually pretty good advice.
    While you're waiting, read the free novel we sent you. It's a Spanish story about a guy named 'Manual.'

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    There's an echo in the cave...

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      You could probably win a prize for working out why that happens.
      While you're waiting, read the free novel we sent you. It's a Spanish story about a guy named 'Manual.'

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