Time for the Ig Nobel Prizes and as usual they don't disappoint. The physics prize went to Jimmy Liao who compared the swimming abilities of dead and live trout finding that dead fish flap their tails to the beat of the current and other things live fish do, bringing him to the conclusion that the water swims the fish! Next up in the chemistry category was seeing how well tubifex worms did swimming through a maze based on their alcohol consumption. Okay...anyone want to tell me how one gets a worm drunk? and then try to get them to negotiate a maze?
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