Ig-Nobel Prize Awards 2006

Every Scientist with a sense of humor gets antsy around mid-september. Most of us will never get close to a nobel ceremony - we toil in obscurity and annonymity. But damn do we enjoy a good laugh, and the Ig-Nobels give us that in spades.

Click the link for this years winners. The Annals of Improbable Research this year answer such urgent questions as why woodpeckers do not get headaches.

It's good messy fun and a break from the bullshit we are up to our necks in.

So check out the Ig-Nobels and party like a molecular biologist with an unexpectedly increased research grant. Politics can wait for tomorrow. The scandals aren't going to disappear - that would violate a law of physics.