10.09.2007

Clearly, we need to breed some smarter rats

The 2007 Ig Nobel prizes were announced the other day, including these awards for outstanding achievement in science:

Linguistics - A University of Barcelona team for showing that rats are unable to tell the difference between a person speaking Japanese backwards and somebody speaking Dutch backwards.

Aviation - A National University of Quilmes, Argentina, team for discovering that impotency drugs can help hamsters to recover from jet lag.

(More from BBC News)

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