2011 Ig Nobels honor research into why people sigh, beetles that mate with beer bottles

30.09.2011

PEACE: To Arturas Zuokas for discovering that the problem of illegally parked luxury cars can be solved by running them over with an armored tank.

PUBLIC SAFETY: to John Senders for conducting a series of safety experiments in which a person drives a car on a major highway while a visor repeatedly flops down, intermittently blinding him. This decades old research has new relevance with the advent of phoning and texting while driving.

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