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The 2007 Winners of Ig Nobel Prize Who Made us Laugh and Think |
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Physics
L. Mahadevan of Harvard University, USA, and Enrique Cerda Villablanca of Universidad de Santiago de Chile, were awarded for finding the key to how sheets become wrinkled.
Chemistry
Japanese scientist Mayu Yamamoto of the International Medical Center of Japan managed to extract a vanilla fragrance and flavor from cow dung.
Nutrition
Brian Wansink of Cornell University, once questioned the limits of h... |
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Humanoids continue invading |
 ...The 21st century is not the time, when people can be easily impressed, this can be refered to another, whether weird or wise, invention of the Japanese, that is a humanoid robot.
On the other hand the most impressive thing is that people are still striving to create somebody, or something, to resemble themselves.
This game has ended up in a demonstration of bots to help the aging population of Japan in their everyda... |
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China's Google in Japan |
 ...The number one search engine in China, Baidu.com, has started its own Japanese search engine, which is the company's first regular service it provides outside of China. The new website, called www.baidu.jp includes a search bar for Web page and image searches. The site also features a user help and advanced services.
The so-called "China's Google" was about to expand its activity overseas as early as March. Until recen... |
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Japanese Scientists Work on a Flexible Battery |
 ...A new type of battery invented in Japan, in the University of Waseda. This is a flexible rechargeable battery, based on polymers. The development of this type of battery was conditioned by the permanently developing industry of portable devices, which become smaller and smaller each year.
Researches on this device have been conducted for several years, but the scientists, working on this battery are Drs. Hiroyuki Nishide... |
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Japan's uncertain guilt for sex slavery during World War II |
 ...The apology on Japan's contribution to forced women prostitution, made by Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, was not convincing enough to acknowledge their responsibility.
Earlier this month Shinzo Abe disapproved Japan's implication into the women's sex slavery during the World War II and that caused negative response all over the world.
More than 200,000 women from Korea and China were exploited for sexual service i... |
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The most important inventions and discoveries of the humanity |
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- fifth discovery was named the invention of the optical microscope in the 17th century;
- invention of concrete by John Smeaton was placed on the sixth place among the inventions;
- the seventh invention in the list was given to the steel processing, found about year 300 B.C. in India;
- brass processing in about 5000 B.C. on the present territory of Turkey has taken the eighth entry in t... |
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Secret US military data was disclosed thanks to porn images |
| ...Secret information on US combat system was accidentally exposed by Japanese officer after he exchanged porn files with another officer at work.
The naval officer intended to copy adult images that came along with the data on Aegis military system taken by accident from another officer's computer. Thus when he swapped the files with the petty officer of the lower rank, the latter was carelessly given the access to t... |
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Compliments and Money Give the Same Satisfaction |
 ... People can be rewarded by compliment or by cash as the brain evaluates both the same.
Dr Norihiro Sadato of National Institute for Physiological Sciences in Okazaki, Japan said that different kinds of reward activate the same area in the brain called striatum.
The findings of the study prove that boosting one's reputation gives a person psychological reward.
During a study, 19 people took part in the experiment... |
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New Electronic Display to Be Used on Clothes and Beer Cans |
| ...One of the latest inventions in the field of light emitting devices might change the way people light their homes and design clothes. The device represents a thin film of plastic able to conduct electricity and create solar power.
Scientists working on the international project are looking forward to bring the organic light emitting devices to the masses. Thus the invention could significantly cut costs by billions of ... |
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Phones should be redesigned, study says |
 ...In 2006 the EU and Japan have taken measured to ban cell phones, containing hazardous metals, such as lead and chromium. This was meant to keep the polluting substances away from the waters, which, if polluted, could become a serious threat to human health.
A study by scientists from the University of California, Irvine, lead by Oladele Ogunseitan, states that those measures where not to fully prevent pollution from ce... |
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New Hollywood Movie Makes Japanese Feel Sick |
 ...Japanese national newspapers warn people that watching a new Hollywood drama can make its viewers feel sick. The warnings are published on request of Gaga Communications, the movie's Japanese distributor.
Babel, a Golden Globe and Academy Award winning 2006 multi-narrative drama, was released in Japan on April 28. Since then the movie's distributors have received complaints from at least 15 people who felt ill while w... |
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