The photo below shows Dr. Harald Moi giving his acceptance speech at the 1996 Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony. Dr. Moi and Ellen Kleist were honored that year for their cautionary medical report “Transmission of Gonorrhea Through an Inflatable Doll.” Dr. Moi will discuss details at the shows in Aarhus (on Monday and Tuesday, March 26) and […]
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Experiments with inflatable & other life-size dolls
A generic life-size doll, with no modifications, was the key element in at least one unplanned experiment — the experiment documented in a 1993 monograph called Transmission of Gonorrhoea Through an Inflatable Doll, published in the journal Genitourinary Medicine. But generally, scientists who conduct planned experiments that rely on life-size dolls prefer to carefully optimise, or […]
The DNA plush doll project
Jun Axup invites you to help her create a plush equivalent to the blueprints for life: (Thanks to investigator Richard Rae for bringing this to our attention.) BONUS: The unrelated study “DNA chips: promising toys have become powerful tools“
Faculty action figures
Very few universities have had realistic ‘action figures’ made of their faculties and staff. One exception is the University of the Ozarks in Arkansas, where Dr. Jesse Weiss (Associate Professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies) has produced a collection of them. The professor hatched the idea via his hobby of customizing action figure models from […]