Can You Believe Scientists Were Actually Paid To Do These Experiments?

The 26thannual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony was held recently at Harvard  Those are the awards ceremony for the most stupid and ridiculous scientific experiments of the year. Like the man who lived as a goat  or the study to see if things looked different if you looked at them upside down in between your legs.....Here are some of the more interesting winners:

The winners all receive Ten Trillion dollars. yep 10 trillion.....Zimbabwe dollars, so I don't think it's quite as fabulous as it sounds...

1. A scientist from Egypt did a study on whether wearing different types of PANTS would affect the sex lives of rats.  So he made them tiny little polyester, cotton, and wool pants to wear.  As far as we know, there was no effect.
2. A team from New Zealand ran a study to determine if ROCKS have personalities . . . or, at least, if people THINK rocks have different personalities.  And apparently we DO.  But the team still hasn't figured out what to do with that discovery.
3. Scientists in Germany found that if you have an itch on the left side of your body, you can look in the mirror and scratch that spot on the right side to relieve it.
4. A study out of Belgium asked 1,000 liars how often they lie . . . and then the scientists believed the results and published them.
5. A British scientist spent the past year trying to get a better understanding of animals, by living in the wilderness wearing costumes and prosthetics and trying to mimic goats, deer, badgers, foxes, and more.
6. Physics prize.. A scientist from Hungary won for discovering why white-haired horses are the most horsefly-proof horses, and for discovering why dragonflies are attracted to black tombstones