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Injury Prevention contributor wins Ig Nobel Award
One of our reviewers and occasional contributor, Peter Barss, a professor in the Department of Epidemiology at McGill, was the recipient of this year’s Ig Nobel Prize for his pioneering research on “Injuries due to falling coconuts”. Although this award is a spoof, being hit with a coconut weighing between 2 and 4 kg may not be a laughing matter. Far more amusing are some of the past Ig Nobel winners in other fields: Physics 2001 “Why shower curtains billow inward”; Psychology 2001 “An ecological study of glee in small groups of preschool children”; Peace 2000, awarded to the British Royal Navy …
