{"id":556,"date":"2006-10-06T12:48:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-06T02:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/556\/"},"modified":"2014-10-10T12:17:43","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T01:17:43","slug":"556","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/556","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2006 <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/sci\/tech\/5411816.stm\">Ig Nobel<\/a> prizes have been announced in the USA.<a href=\"http:\/\/improbable.com\/ig\" \/>link<\/a> Some of the winners included&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>Maths: How many photos must be taken to almost ensure no-one in a group shot has their eyes closed, by Nic Svenson and Piers Barnes <\/p>\n<p>Ornithology: Why woodpeckers do not get headaches, by Ivan Schwab and the late Philip RA May <\/p>\n<p>Nutrition: Why dung beetles are fussy eaters, by Wasmia al-Houty and Faten al-Mussalam <\/p>\n<p>Acoustics: Why the sound of fingernails scraping on blackboards is so annoying, by D Lynn Halpern, Randolph Blake and James Hillenbrand <\/p>\n<p>Medicine: The Termination of Intractable Hiccups with Digital Rectal Massage, by Francis Fesmire, Majed Odeh, Harry Bassan and Arie Oliven.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2006 Ig Nobel prizes have been announced in the USA.link Some of the winners included&#8230; Maths: How many photos must be taken to almost ensure no-one in a group shot has their eyes closed, by Nic Svenson and Piers &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/556\">  Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s5cfmK-556","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}