This medical study’s title is almost panoramic:
“Pancreaticogastrostomy Compared with Pancreaticojejunostomy after Pancreaticoduodenectomy,” J.P. Arnaud, J.J. Tuech, C. Cervi, and R. Bergamaschi, European Journal of Surgery, vol. 165, no. 4, April 1999, pp. 357–62. (Thanks to Gary B. Rollman for bringing this to our attention.) The authors are at the University Hospital of Angers, France. [AIR 15:6]
News reports, including this video, show Ukraine’s parliament members punching, beating, and otherwise assaulting each other. This mimics the behavior pioneered by Taiwan’s Parliament, which earned the 1995 Ig Nobel Peace Prize (“for demonstrating that politicians gain more by punching, kicking and gouging each other than by waging war against other nations”).
The Ukrainian effort is not without innovations. These include: throwing of eggs; defending against that egg-throwing by unfurling umbrellas; and throwing smoke bombs.
The Ig Nobel Prizes were a category yesterday on the game show Jeopardy. This is the fourth time the Igs have been so honored. (Thanks to investigator Nancy Lent for bringing this to our attention.)
An interview about the Ig Nobel Prizes, in Dagens Nyheter, Sweden’s largest newspaper.
A highlight from the 2009 Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony [AIR 15:6]:
Acceptance speech for the prize for veterinary medicine [for showing that cows who have names give more milk than cows that are nameless]
Peter Rowlinson:
“I grew up on a dairy farm in Suffolk, 15 miles from Cambridge. I find myself geographically challenged being here [in Cambridge, Mass.]—yet over 3,000 miles from home. Cath, the senior author of this work, is unable to be here. Along the theme of RISK, she was unaware of the contraceptive benefits of Coca Cola—resulting in pregnancy! She has recently had a baby. You can see [in the projected photograph] that her baby girl is a black and white Holstein Friesian.
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