2005 Ig Nobel awards
October 11th, 2005
The 2005 Ig® Nobel Prize winners are as much fun as ever. Expecially the Peace Prize laureates, who just happen to have conducted their prize-winning research right up the road from here:
PEACE: Claire Rind and Peter Simmons of Newcastle University, in the U.K., for electrically monitoring the activity of a brain cell in a locust while that locust was watching selected highlights from the movie “Star Wars.”
REFERENCE: “Orthopteran DCMD Neuron: A Reevaluation of Responses to Moving Objects. I. Selective Responses to Approaching Objects,” F.C. Rind and P.J. Simmons, Journal of Neurophysiology, vol. 68, no. 5, November 1992, pp. 1654-66.