Ig Nobel honours ponytail physics (BBC)
By Jonathan Amos
Science correspondent, BBC News
A UK/US team that came up with an equation to predict the shape of a ponytail has earned itself an Ig Nobel.
Patrick Warren, Raymond Goldstein, Robin Ball and Joe Keller picked up their prestigious award at a sellout gala ceremony at Harvard University.
Igs are intended as a bit of a spoof on the more sober Nobel science prizes.
Other 2012 winners included teams that studied how chimps could recognise each other from their behinds and why coffee will spill out of a moving mug.
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Chemistry Prize: Johan Pettersson (Sweden/Rwanada) for solving the puzzle of why, in certain houses in the town of Anderslöv, Sweden, people's hair turned green.
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more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19667664
video: http://www.improbable.com/
The Igs are always a hoot, but also thought-provoking -- I'm trying to track down that business with the green hair.
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