Submission + - Ig Nobel Awards for 2007
Thorfinn.au writes: "The Ig Nobel Awards for 2007, which mark achievements that "first make people laugh, and then make them think". The prize for medicine went to Brain Witcombe, of Gloucestershire Royal NHS Foundation Trust, UK, and Dan Meyer for their probing work on the health consequences of swallowing a sword. A review of the announcement is at BBC where it is top story on the SCIENCE/NATURE STORIES page. The original announcement is at IG ."