Pra frente, Brasil!!!

Há poucos dias foi divulgada a sensacional notícia: ganhamos o Ig Nobel 2008, na categoria Arqueologia, com pesquisa desenvolvida por dois colegas da USP!!!

Congrats, rapazes, o mundo dos diggers jamais será o mesmo depois da fascinante descoberta de vocês, rsrsrs...

Vejam abaixo a lista dos ganhadores nas várias categorias (cf link para o Ig Nobel Prize no site Improbable Research, aqui) e escolham a melhor pesquisa...

Confesso que tenho particular predileção pelo trabalho que ganhou o prêmio na categoria Biologia: pulgas que vivem em cães pulam mais alto do que pulgas que vivem em gatos. Ora vejam só!!! Quem diria...

And the 2008 Ig Nobel Prize Winners are...

• Archaeology: Astolfo Gomes de Mello Araújo and José Carlos Marcelino, for showing that armadillos can mix up the contents of an archaeological site.
• Biology: Marie-Christine Cadiergues, Christel Joubert, and Michel Franc, for discovering that fleas that live on dogs jump higher than fleas that live on cats.
• Chemistry: Sheree Umpierre, Joseph Hill, and Deborah Anderson, for discovering that Coca-Cola is an effective spermicide, and C.Y.Hong, C.C. Shieh, P. Wu, and B.N. Chiang for proving it is not.
• Cognitive Science: Toshiyuki Nakagaki, Hiroyasu Yamada, Ryo Kobayashi. Atsushi Tero, Akio Ishiguro, and Ágota Tóth, for discovering that slime molds can solve puzzles.
• Economics: Geoffrey Miller, Joshua Tyber, and Brent Jordan, for discovering that exotic dancers earn more when at peak fertility.
• Literature: David Sims, for his study "You Bastard: a Narrative Exploration of the Experience of Indignation within Organizations".
• Medicine: Dan Ariely, for demonstrating that expensive counterfeit drugs are more effective than inexpensive counterfeit drugs.
• Nutrition: Massimiliano Zampini and Charles Spence, for demonstrating that food tastes better when it sounds more appealing.
• Peace: The Swiss Federal Ethics Committee on Non-Human Biotechnology and the citizens of Switzerland, for adopting the legal principle that plants have dignity.
• Physics: Dorian Raymer and Douglas Smith, for proving that heaps of string or hair will inevitably tangle.
  

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