B-List

2007 Ig Nobel Prize Winners
   <http://improbable.com/ig/ig-pastwinners.html#ig2007>

"For achievements that first make people LAUGH, then make them THINK"

A selection of this year's winners:
  + PHYSICS
L. Mahadevan and Enrique Cerda Villablanca, for studying how sheets
become wrinkled.
  + BIOLOGY
Prof. Dr. Johanna E.M.H. van Bronswijk, for doing a census of all the
mites, insects, spiders, pseudoscorpions, crustaceans, bacteria, algae,
ferns and fungi with whom we share our beds each night.
  + CHEMISTRY
Mayu Yamamoto, for developing a way to extract vanillin -- vanilla
fragrance and flavoring -- from cow dung.
  + LITERATURE
Glenda Browne, for her study of the word "the" -- and of the many ways
it causes problems for anyone who tries to put things into alphabetical
order.
  + NUTRITION
Brian Wansink, for exploring the seemingly boundless appetites of human
beings, by feeding them with a self-refilling, bottomless bowl of soup.