This years Ig Nobel awards acknowledging some of sciences greatest achievements.
Dog Testicles
Medicine - Gregg Miller from the US for his invention of Neuticles - rubber replacement testicles for neutered dogs that are available in varying sizes and degrees of firmness. "Considering my parents thought I was an idiot when I was a kid, this is a great honour," said Mr Miller
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Stressed Frogs
Biology - The University of Adelaide for "painstakingly smelling and cataloguing the peculiar odours produced by 131 different species of frogs when the frogs were feeling stressed".
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Penquin Pooh
Fluid Dynamics - Pressures Produced When Penguins Pooh - Calculations on Avian Defaecation
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