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 An ocean away from Stockholm where the real Nobel
Prizes were announced this week, paper airplanes bombarded the stage
of Harvard’s Sanders Theater Thursday night, as 10 of the world’s most
hilarious achievements were honored — and heckled — at the 15th
Under the strict watch of ”Miss Sweetie Poo," an 8-year-old who shooed
scientists off stage when their speeches got too boring, scientists in
Speedos received the award for settling the age-old scientific question:
Would humans swim faster or slower in syrup?
A European team that unraveled the mysteries of avian defecation in its
report, ”Pressures Produced When Penguins Pooh," clinched the fluid
dynamics prize. And a Japanese doctor who photographed every meal he has
eaten for the last 34 years to find the perfect brain-boosting diet got
his just desserts with the nutrition award.
story from the
Boston Globe
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