The Irish Times reports today that an Ig Nobel Prize played a peripheral role in a ruling by the High Court: UCC lecturer has sanctions quashed A lecturer at University College Cork has won a High Court order quashing sanctions imposed on him following an inquiry into sexual harassment allegations made by a female colleague […]
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Fruit bat award awakens memories in Ireland
The Irish newspaper The Independent reports, in the wake of the 2010 Ig Nobel Biology Prize being awarded to the scientists who documented fellatio in fruit bats, on allegedly-sordid doings in the city of Cork: Notorious fruit bat research wins ‘Ig Nobel’ prize AN ACADEMIC paper about oral sex among fruit bats — which sparked […]
New bat fellatio study gives insights
A new study helps answer the question raised in Thomas Nagel’s 1974 philosophy essay “What Is It Like to Be a Bat?” A team of Chinese and British researchers focuses on one measurable aspect: “Fellatio by Fruit Bats Prolongs Copulation Time,” Min Tan, Gareth Jones, Guangjian Zhu, Jianping Ye, Tiyu Hong, Shanyi Zhou, Shuyi Zhang […]