A recent scientific advancement could see to it that a routine “pit stop” might someday kill two birds with one stone. Think about it – on long road trips you stop at gas stations to do what two things? Empty your bladder and fill your tank. One U.S. chemist has discovered a way for the two needs to come together in an efficient union. A new catalyst has the ability to extract hydrogen from your very own liquid gold. To procure hydrogen from urine, Gerardine Botte [pictured here] of Ohio University uses electrolysis. Botte understood that urine contains two compounds that are potential hydrogen sources: ammonia and urea….
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BONUS FACT: In the days after the live webcast of the 2004 Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, the pigtailed young lady in the pink frock and the coronet was said to be, at least briefly, the most downloaded woman on the Internet.
Please send your prayers of love and gratitude to water at the nuclear plants in Fukushima, Japan! … I would like to ask all people, not just in Japan, but all around the world to please help us to find a way out the crisis of this planet!!
The prayer procedure is as follows. Name of ceremony: “Let’s send our thoughts of love and gratitude to all water in the nuclear plants in Fukushima”. Day and Time: March 31st, 2011 (Thursday), 12:00 noon in each time zone
Please say the following phrase: “The water of Fukushima Nuclear Plant, we are sorry to make you suffer. Please forgive us. We thank you, and we love you.”
(Thanks to investigator Sally Shelton for bringing this to our attention.)
Watch if you will, and if you have the will, and if you have absolutely nothing better to do, his video presentation, in Japanese. You might enjoy and understand it more deeply if you do not speak Japanese, and if you also do not read the subtitles that are in English:
A book just published in Thailand is a translation (into Thai, from Japanese) of Ranai Kuga’s book (ISBN 978-4484082226) about the Ig Nobel Prizes. (We have heard of Kuga’s book, but have not actually seen a copy.) Here’s a rough machine-translation of a review of the newly published book (ISBN 9789744434371):
Perhaps crazy idea to invite Ig Nobel
Books to read out funny. Reading comprehension passages. And read out the inspiration … the content book is about the prize, “Ignacio Nobel” which means there is a twin, each cover of the Nobel Prize at the Chuan funny Chuan think funny, but hidden with an emphasis on a surprising, even more Eผin. This award will be issued along any distortion, but works off the world, it seems real. And what many people are used to balance or actual use of such briefs • • fart deodorizer proven to swim slower in syrup are swimming in the water or plain truth? • “Gay Bomb” ระเบิดที่ให้ศัตรูกลายเป็นตุ๊ด! • Research on umbilical playful dig • Behavior Survey Khegamoou • หยุดอาการสะอึกให้ชะงัดด้วยการนวดช่องทวาร!
In addition, readers will laugh, kick. To the idea that these completely. Will also know why they hide behind the award. The way to see and practice. This is a shortcut way to reward this challenge.
(Thanks to @Fringer for bringing this to our attention.)
If you have never watched someone rip up large amounts of cash, you may be unsure as to how the different parts of your brain would respond in the event that you did see someone tearing valuable banknotes into tiny, worthless shreds. A new study may help you how to predict what would happen.
The study is called How the Brain Responds to the Destruction of Money. It tells how the brains of 20 Danish persons, all of them adults with no history of psychiatric or neurological disease, responded as they watched videos of somebody destroying lots of Danish money….
A recent scientific advancement could see to it that a routine “pit stop” might someday kill two birds with one stone. Think about it – on long road trips you stop at gas stations to do what two things? Empty your bladder and fill your tank. One U.S. chemist has discovered a way for the two needs to come together in an efficient union. A new catalyst has the ability to extract hydrogen from your very own liquid gold. To procure hydrogen from urine, Gerardine Botte [pictured here] of Ohio University uses electrolysis. Botte understood that urine contains two compounds that are potential hydrogen sources: ammonia and urea….
(Thanks to investigator Toby Sommer for bringing this to our attention.)
