View the ceremony here and have some good chuckles.
It's 2 hours of jolly good fun, but you can drag the time slider to 1:39:00 and learn how these two esteemed scientists discovered that a certain brand of Australian beer (the "stubbies" have love handles) lure male buprestid beetles into romantic dalliance.
Read the 2-page original work here.
BTW, Mr Smiley joined us at Chimineas last week.
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| Rentz and Alice at Chimineas. Is he getting a bright idea -- or is that a mercury vapor lamp? |
5 comments:
Great shot Codge. I thought Doc Dave did an excellent job of distracting the "I'm bored" girl with candy. And giving their Nobel Laureate the matching bottle of beer - brilliant.
Yes, he was his usual self, but I noticed he had already polished off the bottle of beer.
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Hey! Your buddy made "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me!" A truly crowning achievement! His study was the true one among three stories about igNoble studies on "Bluff the Listener."
Here's a link to the show's podcast, though it looks as if what I heard this morning won't be available until 5 pm today: http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_detail.php?siteId=5183214
JoEllen
Thanks JoEllen, I sent Dave an email and I'll be listening for it this morning as I putter in the garage.
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