Thursday, March 15, 2007
Super short day in school, only 2 lectures and the day is over, stayed in school and finished up my computing project and a few questions on analogue electronics tutorial.
In the evening was a short presentation of the IG Nobel Prize which was quite a bit of fun. IG Nobel Prizes are given to scientists who came up with interesting research papers that generally raises laughs first then sets people thinking about the implications of research. I have to say some of them i cannot see beyond my imagination its far reaching effects. For example, there was this guy who published a paper on why woodpeckers won't have headaches although they knock their head against wood at a rate of 30 times per second.. it even analyse how some medieval helmets can mimick the shape of the woodpecker's head.
Another interesting invention goes to this guy who came up with a 'MOSQUITO' device that emitts a high frequency noise that only young people can hear. It works on the principal that the noise is at the upper band of the youngsters hearing range. As a person ages their hearing range decreases and therefore they can't hear. In the great hall itself when the device was playing, i personally can't hear it but it is amazing that people around me are raising their hands and detecting something that i can't. There is also a mosquito ringtone that arose in which only youngsters can hear and not older people.. so in a way youngpeople can all play that ringtone in front of their teachers in class. There was also a guy who publised a paper that concluded that a type of duck is homosexual necrophilic coz he saw two male ducks outside his house one day. One of the ducks flew and crashed into his house window and laid down there dead, the other male duck seized the chance and start to rape the dead duck. He was able to catch the whole process becoz the whole raping process lasted for 75 mins! hahaha ducks are good man.
Check out the Link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws99HFtvrAM
It was a very fun evening listening to intellectuals doing stuff like this and i do feel very light hearted after it.. oh well a good way to get me into holiday mood
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