--"Exploring Stock Managers' Perceptions of the Human-Animal Relationship on Dairy Farms and an Association with Milk Production."
Meaning: Showing that cows who have names give more milk than cows that are nameless.
By Catherine Douglas and Peter Rowlinson of Newcastle University, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, UK.
--"Are Full or Empty Beer Bottles Sturdier and Does Their Fracture-Threshold Suffice to Break the Human Skull?"
Meaning: Whether it is better to be smashed over the head with a full bottle of beer or with an empty bottle.
By Stephan Bolliger, Steffen Ross, Lars Oesterhelweg, Michael Thali and Beat Kneubuehl of the University of Bern, Switzerland.
--"Growth of Diamond Films from Tequila"
Meaning: Isn't this one obvious??
By Javier Morales, Miguel Apátiga, and Victor M. Castaño of Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
--"The Role of Auditory Cues in Modulating the Perceived Crispness and Staleness of Potato Chips."
Meaning: Electronically modifying the sound of a potato chip to make the person chewing the chip believe it to be crisper and fresher than it really is.
By Massimiliano Zampini of the University of Trento, Italy and Charles Spence of Oxford University, UK.
--"A Comparison of Jump Performances of the Dog Flea, Ctenocephalides canis (Curtis, 1826) and the Cat Flea, Ctenocephalides felis felis (Bouche, 1835)."
Meaning: Fleas that live on a dog can jump higher than the fleas that live on a cat.
By Marie-Christine Cadiergues, Christel Joubert, and Michel Franc of Ecole Nationale Veterinaire de Toulouse, France.
--"Intelligence: Maze-Solving by an Amoeboid Organism"
Meaning: Slime molds can solve puzzles.
By Toshiyuki Nakagaki of Hokkaido University, Japan, Hiroyasu Yamada of Nagoya, Japan, Ryo Kobayashi of Hiroshima University, Atsushi Tero of Presto JST, Akio Ishiguro of Tohoku University, and Ágotá Tóth of the University of Szeged, Hungary.
--"Commercial Features of Placebo and Therapeutic Efficacy."
Meaning: High-priced fake medicine is more effective than low-priced fake medicine.
By Dan Ariely of Duke University (USA), Rebecca L. Waber of MIT (USA), Baba Shiv of Stanford University (USA), and Ziv Carmon of INSEAD (Singapore).
--"Spontaneous Knotting of an Agitated String."
Meaning: Proving mathematically that heaps of string or hair or almost anything else will inevitably tangle themselves up in knots.
By Dorian Raymer of the Ocean Observatories Initiative at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA, and Douglas Smith of the University of California, San Diego, USA.
--"Sword Swallowing and Its Side Effects."
Meaning: *sigh*
By Brian Witcombe of Gloucester, UK, and Dan Meyer of Antioch, Tennessee, USA
--"Wrinkling of an Elastic Sheet Under Tension."
Meaning: How sheets become wrinkled.
By L. Mahadevan of Harvard University, USA, and Enrique Cerda Villablanca of Universidad de Santiago de Chile.
--"Effects of Backward Speech and Speaker Variability in Language Discrimination by Rats."
Meaning: Rats sometimes cannot tell the difference between a person speaking Japanese backwards and a person speaking Dutch backwards.
By Juan Manuel Toro, Josep B. Trobalon and Núria Sebastián-Gallés, of Universitat de Barcelona.
--"Harassing, Annoying, and 'Bad Guy' Identifying Chemicals."
Meaning: Chemical weapon -- the so-called "gay bomb" -- that will make enemy soldiers become sexually irresistible to each other.
By The Air Force Wright Laboratory, Dayton, Ohio, USA.
--"Psychoacoustics of a Chilling Sound."
Meaning: Why people dislike the sound of fingernails scraping on a blackboard.
By D. Lynn Halpern (of Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, and Brandeis University, and Northwestern University), Randolph Blake (of Vanderbilt University and Northwestern University) and James Hillenbrand (of Western Michigan University and Northwestern University).
--"Woodpeckersand Head Injury."
Meaning: Exploring and explaining why woodpeckers don't get headaches.
By Ivan R. Schwab, of the University of California Davis, and the late Philip R.A. May of the University of California Los Angeles.
--"Dung Preference of the Dung Beetle Scarabaeus cristatus Fab (Coleoptera-Scarabaeidae) from Kuwait."
Meaning: Dung beetles are finicky eaters.
By Wasmia Al-Houty of Kuwait University and Faten Al-Mussalam of the Kuwait Environment Public Authority.
--Howard Stapleton of Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, invented an electromechanical teenager repellant a device that makes annoying high-pitched noise designed to be audible to teenagers but not to adults; used that same technology to make telephone ringtones that are audible to teenagers but probably not to their teachers.
Meaning: Showing that cows who have names give more milk than cows that are nameless.
By Catherine Douglas and Peter Rowlinson of Newcastle University, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, UK.
--"Are Full or Empty Beer Bottles Sturdier and Does Their Fracture-Threshold Suffice to Break the Human Skull?"
Meaning: Whether it is better to be smashed over the head with a full bottle of beer or with an empty bottle.
By Stephan Bolliger, Steffen Ross, Lars Oesterhelweg, Michael Thali and Beat Kneubuehl of the University of Bern, Switzerland.
--"Growth of Diamond Films from Tequila"
Meaning: Isn't this one obvious??
By Javier Morales, Miguel Apátiga, and Victor M. Castaño of Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
--"The Role of Auditory Cues in Modulating the Perceived Crispness and Staleness of Potato Chips."
Meaning: Electronically modifying the sound of a potato chip to make the person chewing the chip believe it to be crisper and fresher than it really is.
By Massimiliano Zampini of the University of Trento, Italy and Charles Spence of Oxford University, UK.
--"A Comparison of Jump Performances of the Dog Flea, Ctenocephalides canis (Curtis, 1826) and the Cat Flea, Ctenocephalides felis felis (Bouche, 1835)."
Meaning: Fleas that live on a dog can jump higher than the fleas that live on a cat.
By Marie-Christine Cadiergues, Christel Joubert, and Michel Franc of Ecole Nationale Veterinaire de Toulouse, France.
--"Intelligence: Maze-Solving by an Amoeboid Organism"
Meaning: Slime molds can solve puzzles.
By Toshiyuki Nakagaki of Hokkaido University, Japan, Hiroyasu Yamada of Nagoya, Japan, Ryo Kobayashi of Hiroshima University, Atsushi Tero of Presto JST, Akio Ishiguro of Tohoku University, and Ágotá Tóth of the University of Szeged, Hungary.
--"Commercial Features of Placebo and Therapeutic Efficacy."
Meaning: High-priced fake medicine is more effective than low-priced fake medicine.
By Dan Ariely of Duke University (USA), Rebecca L. Waber of MIT (USA), Baba Shiv of Stanford University (USA), and Ziv Carmon of INSEAD (Singapore).
--"Spontaneous Knotting of an Agitated String."
Meaning: Proving mathematically that heaps of string or hair or almost anything else will inevitably tangle themselves up in knots.
By Dorian Raymer of the Ocean Observatories Initiative at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA, and Douglas Smith of the University of California, San Diego, USA.
--"Sword Swallowing and Its Side Effects."
Meaning: *sigh*
By Brian Witcombe of Gloucester, UK, and Dan Meyer of Antioch, Tennessee, USA
--"Wrinkling of an Elastic Sheet Under Tension."
Meaning: How sheets become wrinkled.
By L. Mahadevan of Harvard University, USA, and Enrique Cerda Villablanca of Universidad de Santiago de Chile.
--"Effects of Backward Speech and Speaker Variability in Language Discrimination by Rats."
Meaning: Rats sometimes cannot tell the difference between a person speaking Japanese backwards and a person speaking Dutch backwards.
By Juan Manuel Toro, Josep B. Trobalon and Núria Sebastián-Gallés, of Universitat de Barcelona.
--"Harassing, Annoying, and 'Bad Guy' Identifying Chemicals."
Meaning: Chemical weapon -- the so-called "gay bomb" -- that will make enemy soldiers become sexually irresistible to each other.
By The Air Force Wright Laboratory, Dayton, Ohio, USA.
--"Psychoacoustics of a Chilling Sound."
Meaning: Why people dislike the sound of fingernails scraping on a blackboard.
By D. Lynn Halpern (of Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, and Brandeis University, and Northwestern University), Randolph Blake (of Vanderbilt University and Northwestern University) and James Hillenbrand (of Western Michigan University and Northwestern University).
--"Woodpeckersand Head Injury."
Meaning: Exploring and explaining why woodpeckers don't get headaches.
By Ivan R. Schwab, of the University of California Davis, and the late Philip R.A. May of the University of California Los Angeles.
--"Dung Preference of the Dung Beetle Scarabaeus cristatus Fab (Coleoptera-Scarabaeidae) from Kuwait."
Meaning: Dung beetles are finicky eaters.
By Wasmia Al-Houty of Kuwait University and Faten Al-Mussalam of the Kuwait Environment Public Authority.
--Howard Stapleton of Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, invented an electromechanical teenager repellant a device that makes annoying high-pitched noise designed to be audible to teenagers but not to adults; used that same technology to make telephone ringtones that are audible to teenagers but probably not to their teachers.
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