This years 2001 Ig Nobel Prize winners include research on:

• injuries Due to Falling Coconuts


• why shower curtains billow inwards


• airtight underwear with a replaceable charcoal filter that removes bad-smelling gases before they escape


• that people find a way to postpone their deaths if that that would qualify them for a lower rate on the inheritance tax


• protect, promote, and defend the differences between plural and possessive


• an Ecological Study of Glee in Small Groups of Preschool Children


• that black holes fulfill all the technical requirements to be the location of Hell


• patenting the wheel in the year 2001


• medical discovery that nose picking is a common activity among adolescents.