Ig Nobel Prize

heard of the Nobel Prizes.

Have you heard of the Ig Nobel's?

I have not.

Okay, these are a fun-filled parody of the Nobel Prizes.

I'm just going to highlight one of them for now.

Brilliant.

So the University of Waterloo PhD student, his name is Kavishan, and his colleagues, they won this year's Ig Nobel Physics Prize for their theoretical and experimental attempts to design a splash-free urinal.

So for me, not an issue, but probably an issue for men around the world.

A test in Aichi Prefecture found that zebra-striped cows attracted half as many insects as plain ones.

The research won an Ig Nobel Prize last year, a Nobel Prize parody which honors science that makes people both laugh and think.

But the solution has not been black and white.

Painted stripes fade within days.

After five decades, neither hand showed any signs of arthritis.

He won the 2009 IG Nobel Prize, a parody award for unusual and humorous scientific achievements.

There is no effect of cracking your knuckles.

Is Don

And he asks the question or suggests that He has a pre-budget day guide to Britain's bad taxes, which is a very interesting way of thinking about putting in your pre-budget submission.

Have you ever heard of the Ig Nobel Prize in economics, Jim?

Can't say I have, Chris.

Well, there's an Ig Nobel Prize in all sorts of different things.

It's the opposite to the Nobel.

It's people taking the piss, basically.

And the more complicated your tax system is, the weirder the lengths that people will go to.

And harking back to professional services, the more they'll pay lawyers and tax accountants to avoid taxes.

And I'm going to get into my fact, which, as I said, is about underpants.

Okay, so on our previous episode, I think it was literally just our last episode, I mentioned some Ig Nobel winning research and...

I, of course, focused on scientific inquiries into the evolution of smooching in that episode, but I also talked briefly about some science involving briefs.

So today I'm going to share some more delightful details about that for those of you who were not with me a fortnight ago or who have...

Filled your heads with so much knowledge since then that you need a reminder.

One of this year's Ig Nobel Prize winners was a study out of the University of Zurich where scientists had folks bury tiny whiteys in the name of investigating soil health.

And I think a lot of us in the world do.

Think of dirt as being kind of inert.