469: Running Cadence and Acute Cartilage Response

Well, it's episode 469, uh, which means we've got some trivia.

W- do we have some, like, pigeon trivia today, Chris? Is that what we-

We don't, but ironically, this does actually coincide a little bit.

Uh, are you-

Yeah

...

both familiar with the IG Nobel Prize?

Instagram?

Uh, no.

It, it stands for, uh, the Ig Nobel, as in, like, this is a real thing that's been given out, like spoof Nobel prizes, that have-

No

... been given out since 1991 for real absurd research, but real research.

Hmm.

Um-

No

... apparently it's a-

I have not heard of this

...

it is a parody award for research that first makes people laugh and then makes you think.

They've been handed out since 1991, run by the science-

Hmm

... humor magazine, The Annals of Improbable Research, with the ceremony held at Harvard [laughs] every year.

All right.

Fantastic.

Um, s- the or- one of the original, um, uh, apparently this is, in 2009, just to kinda give you an idea, and there's gonna actually be trivia, but 2009, uh, Dr. Donald Unger cracked the knuckles of only his left hand for 60 years, [laughs] for 60 years-