Check out the Ig Nobel prizes! If you have free time, you should look at some winners. First, it makes you laugh. Then, it makes you think about it. Some discoveries/inventions include:
- How to extract vanilla flavouring from cow- dung (gross)
- Why woodpeckers don't get headaches
- Why dry spaghetti often breaks into more than two pieces when bent
- An alarm clock that runs away and hides, repeatedly, thus ensuring that people DO get out of bed, and thus theoretically adding many productive hours to the workday
- The fleas that live on a dog can jump higher than the fleas that live on a cat
- Training pigeons to discriminate between the paintings of Picasso and those of Monet
- Estimating the Total Surface Area in Indian Elephants
- PawSense, a software that detects when a cat is walking across your computer keyboard
Have fun! XD
