Breaking butterflies on a wheel
Well it’s that time of the year again. As the southern hemisphere slowly warms to a new spring, so the annual Ig Nobel awards reappear. I have written about these previously, but to the uninitiated these awards embody the pinnacle of human achievement and represent eccentric and unusual research as an alternative to the “real” Nobel awards, which although awarded at the same time tend to be a little dry by comparison.
The winner in the Medicine category was the penetrating study published in our …







