Yesterday was the 32nd Ig Nobel Prizes (the prizes for comical scientific achievements),held less than a month before the Nobel Prizes,this years winners include:the sex lives of constipated scorpions,how ducklings have born in physics,a full size rubber moose crash test dummy and how the heart beats of people on blind dates synchronize if they are attracted to each other among others. The poor scorpions when they lose their tails escaping predators they not only lose their sex drives but eventually their lives from constipation. The duckling simply follow their mother in a straight line to conserve energy much like geese flying in formation or cars drafting off of the vehicle in front of them. The heart beats are self explanatory leaving us with a dummy moose to determine the damage done to the animal when it is hit rather than the damage to the vehicle. Ah,the Iggy's! One of the prizes this year was a virtually worthless Zimbabwean 10 trillion dollar bill.
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