Awhile back, I posted an entry about Neuticles. I was first introduced to the word by my kind-of-uncle, Steve, who had a set put into his boxer when he got the ol' gonadectomy procedure done. He said they swelled to a human sized set at first, but then went down to normal size and my kind-of-aunt let me know that they were cold to the touch. Last year I bought him the Neuticles baseball cap, which says, "Neuticles. It's like nothing ever changed.". Needless to say, he loved it.

Now, I bring you the fantastic news that the creator of the Neuticle has won an award for his brilliant invention. The Ig Nobel prize is given at Harvard and celebrates the humorous, creative, and odd side of science. Other winners include a team of researchers who, since 1927, have been tracking a blob of tar as it drips through a funnel at a rate of one drop every 9 years, and two researchers in England, who have been monitoring the brain activity of locusts as they watched clips from the movie "Star Wars". My favorite, though, is this one: an experiment at the University of Minesota was designed to prove whether people can swim faster or slower in syrup than in water. Congratulations on this free press, dude. Take it and run.

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