improbable research?

I knew most research are much fuzz over nothingness, but things published here is really pushing the limit of human absurdity. Check it out at

Below is the CNet blog's coverage of the story.
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The Annals of Improbable Research,
best known as the host of the Ig Nobel Awards, will now offer a free
online version of its journal.

The Ig Nobel Prizes
ceremony, an annual event held at Harvard University and parody of the
Nobel Prizes, honors discoveries in science and technology that "first
make people laugh, and then make them think."

Past winners include: Mayu Yamamoto of the International Medical
Center of Japan who invented a way to extract vanilla fragrance and
flavoring from cow dung; an Air Force Research Laboratory in Dayton,
Ohio, who invented a chemical weapon that when dropped causes
heterosexual men to become attracted to each other; and Howard
Stapleton for his so-called electromechanical teenager repellent device that produces a sound audible only to those 30 or younger.

The Annals of Improbable Research journal, while now available free online
will still continue to be offered in a print version "for subscribers
who like their electrons blended with protons and neutrons," the
publisher said in a statement.

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