Stating the obvious.

Ig Nobel time again ... here are some of my faves.



University of Alberta's centre for health promotion department decides that kids who watch hundreds of junk food ads are more likely to eat it and be obese than kids who don't.

Call centre staff who address you by your first name are irritating, says Oxford university researchers.

Parents whose kids won't eat vegetables can disguise them by mushing them up and mixing them with other food, say researchers from Penn State university.

Men prefer blondes, say a bunch of Polish scientists studying hair colour of women over 35.

Impulsive, risk taking and thrill seeking drug takers are more likely to become addicted, say the boffins at Cambridge university.

... and my personal favourite ...

Heaps of long string always tend to end up getting tied in big knots when they are put into a box and given a good shaking up, that's the physics department at San Diego university.

Well, no shit, a bunch of string shaken up in a fucking box will end up getting all knotted together !

Yeah. I like that last one too.

All that research money ... wasted is such a shame though

You like your money then do you Mr. Cooper