Study on beer goggles among Ig Nobel Prize winners

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NEW YORK (AFP) -- The tongue-in-cheek Ig Nobel awards were handed Thursday to dozens of scientists, including those who confirmed drunk people think they are more attractive and studied the onion enzyme that makes us cry.

The Nobel prize spoof honors achievements "that first make people laugh and then make them think," according to a press release.

The Ig Nobels invite real Nobel laureates to confer honors on serious scientists for work that is generally only unintentionally funny.

There is also a peace prize, which this year was jointly awarded to the president of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, for making it illegal to applaud in public, and to the Belarus police "for arresting a one-armed man for applauding."

The safety engineering prize went to late American researcher Gustano Pizzo, who invented a system to trap airplane hijackers, seal them into a package and parachute them into the hands of police.


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[Warpy]

1. They did the beer goggles on Mythbusters

and found it was hit or miss, some of the staff definitely finding people more attractive while a few got more critical.

Every drunk is different. Still, it was a fun show watching them get shitfaced--for science, you know.