2004 IgNobel Prize Winners (Awarded while we watched the debate!)

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2004 IgNobel Prize Winners


The 2004 IgNobel Prizes were awarded on Thursday evening, September 30, at the 14th First Annual IgNobel Prize Ceremony, at Harvard's Sanders Theatre.


MEDICINE
Steven Stack of Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA and James Gundlach of Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, USA, for their published report "The Effect of Country Music on Suicide"


ENGINEERING
Donald J. Smith and his father, the late Frank J. Smith, of Orlando Florida, USA, for patenting the combover (U.S. Patent #4,022,227).

Lots more (posted with links and my all time personal favorite award winner,"Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments,") on my blog:

http://ascrivenerslament.blogspot.com/