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Sex as a cure for nasal congestion, flying rhinoceroses, and cat-human communication: winners of the 2021 Ig Nobel prizes

Friday September 10, 2021. 05:49 PM , from BoingBoing
For 31 years, the Annals of Improbable Research have awarded the delightful Ig Nobel Prizes honoring scientific 'achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think.' Of this year's ten winners announced yesterday, here are a few of my favorites:

* Lund University's Susanne Schötz, 'for analyzing variations in purring, chirping, chattering, trilling, tweedling, murmuring, meowing, moaning, squeaking, hissing, yowling, howling, growling, and other modes of cat–human communication.' — Read the rest
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