Penguin Pooh Paper Earns Ig Nobel – Does your dog "got nuts"?

Dr. Yoshiro NakaMats has enough on his plate without having to remember what he had for lunch three days ago.

But the prolific 77-year-old inventor and author (known to some as Japan’s Ray Kurzweil) does indeed want to remember his meals — every one of them.

That’s why Dr. NakaMats, perhaps best known as the inventor the floppy disk and author of the book "How to become a superman lying down," dutifully photographs all of his dinners, lunches and breakfasts.

There were 10 prizes this year: The Ig Nobel Prize in Medicine went to Gregg Miller, inventor of Neuticles, artificial testicle replacements for neutered dogs and other animals, which come in different sizes and levels of firmness.

"Neuticles (allow) your pet to retain his natural look, self esteem and aids in the trauma associated with neutering," the product’s website says.

Another gross-out idea won this year’s Ig Nobel Prize in Fluid Dynamics: Two European researchers calculated the pressure that builds up inside a penguin about to go potty, and reported their findings in a paper entitled, Pressures Produced When Penguins Pooh — Calculations on Avian Defaecation.

By Mark Baard

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