Encyclopedia Sciplayer has made two more videos, each about a different Ig Nobel Prize winner: “Why Don’t Woodpeckers Get a Headache”: “How to take a blink-free photo”:
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More about woodpeckers and headaches
A new study about the dearth of headaches in woodpeckers builds on the research that earned the 2006 Ig Nobel Prize in ornithology. [The photo here shows Ivan Schwab, co-winner of that prize, delivering his acceptance speech.] The International Business Times gives its interpretation: How Woodpeckers Avoid Brain Injuries, Research Shows Football players and boxers […]
Further advance in woodpecker head science
Joe Eaton reports in the Berkeley Daily Planet: Wild Neighbors: Woody Has the Last Laugh A few years back I wrote about the bestowal of the Ig Nobel Prize for medicine on UC-Davis ophthalmology professor Ivan Schwab [pictured here] for his explanation of why woodpeckers don’t get headaches…. Just last month, though, two UC-Berkeley researchers, […]