Santiago Bilinkis l Risk and Reward - Trying to live a life out of the comfort zone

Last week at Harvard University they announced the 2008 Ig Nobel Awards, an interesting version of the Nobel Prizes to recognize research where the funny subject “first makes you laugh, then makes you think”, organized by the journal ‘Annals of Improbable Research’.

The name comes from a pun with the word “ignoble” but there is nothing ignoble about the winners! I would say they are shameless geniuses.

As an example, two of last year’s winners: in Medicine it was won by two scientists who wrote a paper on: “Sword swallowing and its side effects”. You can see above the pic of the moment when they accepted the award.

The Peace award was given to a US Air Force Lab that researched to develop a chemical weapon nicknamed  “the gay bomb” because it makes the enemy soldiers feel sexually irresistible to each other.

Let’s see some of this year’s winners, and then I will propose a contest:

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