14 March 2006

The Effect of Country Music on Suicide


A nice little story on the Beeb's web site regarding the Ig Nobel prizes. It's good to remember that science can be amusing as well as expansive, when it's not being downright odd:

Often the titles of the winning papers are masterpieces of scientific obscurity:
  • Salmonella Excretion in Joy-Riding Pigs
  • The Effects of Unilateral Forced Nostril Breathing on Cognition
  • The Effect of Country Music on Suicide
  • An Analysis of the Forces Required to Drag Sheep Over Various Surfaces.
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