Insegrevious Paratereseomaniacs - 25 Aug. 2008

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🗓️ 25 August 2008

⏱️ 52 minutes

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In this episode, Martha and Grant honor winners of the Ig Nobel Prizes, those wacky awards for weird academic research, and they help a caller decipher a puzzling word from a personals ad: what does paratereseomaniac mean? Hear hundreds of free episodes and learn more on the A Way with Words website: https://waywordradio.org. Be a part of the show: call or text 1 (877) 929-9673 toll-free in the United States and Canada; elsewhere in the world, call or text +1 619 800 4443. Send voice notes or messages via WhatsApp 16198004443. Email words@waywordradio.org. Copyright Wayword, Inc., a 501(c)(3) corporation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.0	You're listening to Away With Words. I'm Grant Barrett.
0:35.0	And I'm Martha Barnett and Grant, you know, they announced the Ig Nobel Prizes recently.
0:40.0	Did I win? Not this year, but I think you're a strong contender for next year.
0:49.0	As you know, they're a spoof of the Nobel Prizes and they're given out by the editors of a science humor
0:54.2	magazine called The Animals of Improvable Research. And these guys honor
0:59.8	academic and scientific research that first makes you laugh and then makes you think.
1:05.0	And I have a report on this year's Ig Nobel Prize for Linguistics and no you didn't get it.
1:10.0	It went to researchers at Barcelona University who proved that rats cannot tell the
1:16.2	difference between a person speaking Japanese backwards and a person speaking
1:20.8	Dutch backwards.
1:21.8	What are they going to do with that?
1:24.0	I don't know.
1:25.0	I guess somebody has to research this stuff.
1:27.0	And get this, the Ig Nobel Award for Literature went to one Glenda Brown.
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