[Informatics] You want exemplary hypotheses to prepare kids for the SAT?

[Mark]

Sorry - the link to the 'Ig Nobel' awards site dropped off my interwebpost.

The Ig Nobel site is at http://www.improbable.com/ig/winners/

M

On 27 December 2015 at 14:29, Mark <mark at vceit.com> wrote:

> Hypotheses from recent mesmerising Ig Nobel Awards ...
>
> -
> ​regardless of size, ​
> nearly all mammals
> ​
> empty their bladders in about 21 seconds (plus or minus 13 seconds)
> ​*
>
>
> - acute appendicitis can be accurately diagnosed by the amount of pain
> evident when the patient is driven over speed bumps.*
> ​*​
>
>
> - people who habitually stay up late are, on average, more self-admiring,
> more manipulative, and more psychopathic than people who rise early in the
> morning.
> ​***
>
>
> - is it mentally hazardous for a human being to own a cat?
> ​****
>
>
> - when dogs defecate and urinate, they prefer to align their body axis
> with Earth's north-south geomagnetic field lines**
> ​***​
>
> ​- listening to opera improves the survival of mice undergoing heart
> transplants.******
>
> -
> ​drunk ​
> people think they are attractive
> ​.​
>
> *And finally, a Swedish/Australian joint prize winner in the the
> unusually-conjoined fields of Biology and Astronomy: ​*
>
> ​- ​
> when dung beetles get lost, they can navigate their way home by looking at
> the Milky Way.
>
> ​So many hypotheses. So little time.
> ​
> ​Mark​
>
> -
> ​As usual, feel free to skip the footnotes.​
>
>
> * I can hear across Victoria, "Honey? Where's the stopwatch? I gotta pee."
> ​
>
> *
> ​*​
> I can personally attest to the appendicitis hypothesis.
> ​Try it:
> rid
> ​e
>  a bumpy bus from Bulleen to the city with what turns out to be a burst
> appendix. It's
> *​​hours* of fun
> ​... and then near-fatal surgery​
> .
>
> **** I
> ​stay
>  up late, yet I am *delightful* and universally-known for my *kindness*
> and *beneficence*. And, yes - I'm certainly *not* psychopathic, and
> there's no-one alive who can prove otherwise... I made sure of that.
>
> **** T
> his study also references the topic in
> my previous post about cat bite depression.
>
> **
> ​***​
> Doesn't
> *​​everyone*?
> ​ I know I do.​
>
> ​****** Dare I say, '
> *​​Die Fledermaus*
> *​*' by Strauss?​  hehehe.
> ​
> --
>
> Mark Kelly
>
> mark at vceit.com
> http://vceit.com
>



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Mark Kelly

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