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Special Awards

The Darwin Awards

Among the less serious awards, we find the Darwin Awards for those who have made themselves a name by finding really stupid ways of killing themselves:

• The Darwin Awards: 180 Bizarre True Stories of How Dumb Humans Have Made Their Maker
• The Darwin Awards II
• The Darwin Awards III: Even More True Stories of How Dumb Humans Have Met Their Maker
• The Darwin Awards: Evolution in Action

The Ig Noble awards

is the ultimate reward for scientific endeavours best forgotten and never reproduced. These scientific results are presented in the volume

The Ig Nobel Prizes: The Annals of Improbable Research

Among the highlights(?) one could mention the following:

• The First Case of Homosexual Necrophilia in the Mallard Anas platyrhynchos (Aves: Anatidae)
• An Analysis of the Forces Required to Drag Sheep over Various Surfaces
• Scrotal Asymmetry in Man and in Ancient Sculpture
• The Possible Pain Experienced During Execution by Different Methods
• Chicken Plucking as Measure of Tornado Wind Speed
• Effect of Ale, Garlic, and Soured Cream on the Appetite of Leeches