I'm sorry I didn't get a chance to hear the presentations at the
Ig Nobel Tour, but if it makes it here to the US, I'll be trying. Nothing like sick science humor done by great presenters.
The speakers were given strict 5-minute slots to tell their stories, and I for one was glad of the time limit during the first talk, by an energetic Chris MacManus (left). He'd won his Ig Nobel for his seminal paper "Scrotal asymmetry in man and in ancient sculpture".
And Dara, longstanding fan of all foods crunchy would have appreciated the talk by...
Oxford University's Charles Spence, on the effect of crunchy-food-sounds on our appreciation of said food. We discovered that if you capture the sound a Pringle potato chip makes when you crunch it, and enhance certain frequencies, you enjoy them even more.
Maybe we'll get to see it on the Discovery Channel sometime.
1 comment:
I'm not a fan of Pringles but I have been known to put Lay's into the oven to crisp them up. :-) The chips that are made crispy but thick make my teeth ache.
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