2007 Ig Nobel Prize Winners

2007 Ig Nobel Prize Winners

   2007 Ig Nobel Prize Winners
      <http://improbable.com/ig/ig-pastwinners.html#ig2007>

   "For achievements that first make people LAUGH, then make them THINK"

   A selection of this year's winners:
     + PHYSICS
   L. Mahadevan and Enrique Cerda Villablanca, for studying how sheets
   become wrinkled.
     + BIOLOGY
   Prof. Dr. Johanna E.M.H. van Bronswijk, for doing a census of all the
   mites, insects, spiders, pseudoscorpions, crustaceans, bacteria, algae,
   ferns and fungi with whom we share our beds each night.
     + CHEMISTRY
   Mayu Yamamoto, for developing a way to extract vanillin -- vanilla
   fragrance and flavoring -- from cow dung.
     + LITERATURE
   Glenda Browne, for her study of the word "the" -- and of the many ways
   it causes problems for anyone who tries to put things into alphabetical
   order.
     + NUTRITION
   Brian Wansink, for exploring the seemingly boundless appetites of human
   beings, by feeding them with a self-refilling, bottomless bowl of soup.