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Re: Nobel Prize time

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The Ig Nobel prizes were also announced recently.

I see a Swiss team won one for peace by researching whether it is better to be hit over the head with a full or empty beer bottle.
They won the IgNoble Peace Prize
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...e_winners#2009

The winners for vet medicine are British scientists:
Veterinary medicine: Catherine Douglas and Peter Rowlinson of Newcastle University, UK, for showing that cows with names give more milk than cows that are nameless
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