Improbable Research

Last week's Nobel prizes timed with the Ig Nobel prizes for Improbable Research which has been long standing for those scientists who do not follow the trends, the normal and do not let themselves be taken over by what is the traditional. Last week's prizes ranged from, for example, the Artificial replacement testicles for dogs (Medicine prize); and my favorite, of a man Photographing and retrospectively analizing his food intake for the last 34 years (Nutrition).

Yet, I mention this for two reasons. One to congratulate the University of Oulu for supporting one of the winners for the Fluid Dynamics prize in their research of 'Pressures produced when penguins pooh -calculations on avian defaecation'. You can see the list of all winners (and past winners, along with all the information you need about the Ig Nobel: http://www.improbable.com/ig/ig-top.html

The other reason is just to inform you that I will send my application form to the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientist (LFHCfS), and for that I need the help of my bald husband because in most of the photos he takes of me in the presence of my fluffy hair, he either delete the photo or dissappears it; therefore I have no evidence to send to the club. I don't like to speculate about his reasons to eliminate those images of me and my hair (which he explicitly conclude as 'too big'). That is why, now, that I have been able to know about this club, that I expect to have a place of free expression and support where my hairless husband cannot interfere with, and hopefully gain his understanding with the time. So please please, I need your moral support to motivate him take a photo of me with my opened hair which can get me into the LFHCfS.

I will keep you informed about the progress of the application and of its acceptance or, in the worse case scenario, of its rejection.