totalement hors sujet quoique........ les IGNobel 2009 j’en retiens 3 :
PEACE PRIZE : Stephan
Bolliger, Steffen
Ross, Lars Oesterhelweg, Michael
Thali and Beat Kneubuehl of the University of Bern, Switzerland, for
determining — by experiment — whether it is better to be
smashed over the head with a full bottle of beer or with an empty bottle.
REFERENCE : "Are
Full or Empty Beer Bottles Sturdier and Does Their Fracture-Threshold
Suffice to Break the Human Skull ?" Stephan
A. Bolliger, Steffen Ross, Lars Oesterhelweg, Michael J. Thali and
Beat P. Kneubuehl, Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine, vol. 16,
no. 3, April 2009, pp. 138-42. DOI:10.1016/j.jflm.2008.07.013.
ECONOMICS PRIZE : The directors, executives, and auditors of four Icelandic banks — Kaupthing Bank, Landsbanki, Glitnir Bank, and Central Bank of Iceland — for demonstrating that tiny banks can be rapidly transformed into huge banks, and vice versa — and for demonstrating that similar things can be done to an entire national economy.
CHEMISTRY PRIZE : Javier Morales, Miguel
Apátiga, and Victor
M. Castaño of Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México,
for creating diamonds from liquid — specifically from tequila.
REFERENCE : "Growth
of Diamond Films from Tequila," Javier
Morales, Miguel Apatiga and Victor M. Castano, 2008, arXiv:0806.1485.
Le dernier est intéressant........ comment transformer de l’alcool en diamant
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