Ig Nobel Prize

[Rod]

OZ BEATS OUT NZ AT Ig Nobel Prize!!!

[Thought the post was about you didn't you Sue ;-]

Despite NZ's significant numerical advantage in sheep population Oz
scientists
have maintained the cutting edge by determining the-Forces Required to Drag
Sheep
over Various Surfaces and received international recognition for doing so!

Eat our dust Kiwi's!

http://www.improb.com/ig/ig-top.html

PHYSICS
Jack Harvey, John Culvenor, Warren Payne, Steve Cowley, Michael Lawrance,
David Stuart, and Robyn Williams of Australia, for their irresistible report
"An Analysis of the Forces Required to Drag Sheep over Various Surfaces."
[PUBLISHED IN: Applied Ergonomics, vol. 33, no. 6, November 2002, pp.
523-31. A copy can be downloaded from http://www.culvenor.com/]
WHO ATTENDED THE IG NOBEL CEREMONY: John Culvenor.
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The good news for NZ is that God, through the uninhibited auspice of nature,
has confirmed the legitimacy of two other favourite Kiwi pastimes-

BIOLOGY
C.W. Moeliker, of Natuurmuseum Rotterdam, the Netherlands, for documenting
the first scientifically recorded case of homosexual necrophilia in the
mallard duck.
[REFERENCE: "The First Case of Homosexual Necrophilia in the Mallard Anas
platyrhynchos (Aves: Anatidae)" C.W. Moeliker, Deinsea, vol. 8, 2001, pp.
243-7. Photographs can be viewed at <http://www.nmr.nl/deins815.htm>]
WHO ATTENDED THE IG NOBEL CEREMONY: Kees Moeliker.
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The photographs are subject to copy right Steve....they cannot be utilised
for commercial
purposes.

Puts a different light on Cormorant Baking don't it?!

Rod.

[Steve Marshall]

Rod wrote:

>"An Analysis of the Forces Required to Drag Sheep over Various Surfaces."

http://www.ergonomics.net.au/

Some fine looking sheep Rod. I wouldn't mind dragging a few of those
around a shearing shed floor.

>BIOLOGY
>C.W. Moeliker, of Natuurmuseum Rotterdam, the Netherlands, for documenting
>the first scientifically recorded case of homosexual necrophilia in the
>mallard duck.

That's an intertesting malady. I'll stick to shags and cormorants,
though.

[Rod]

Steve Marshall <asm...@es.co.nz> wrote in message
news:klcu205r4ec6b0oqh...@4ax.com...

> Rod wrote:
>
> >"An Analysis of the Forces Required to Drag Sheep over Various Surfaces."
> http://www.ergonomics.net.au/
>
> Some fine looking sheep Rod. I wouldn't mind dragging a few of those
> around a shearing shed floor.

Role reversal?

:-)