It's IgNobel Awards time again, kids! Some good awardees this year, including a team that found a way to put the ol' stinky pinky to work for the benefit of mankind.

 

To Science!

 

Winning research included a U.S. and Israeli team's discovery that hiccups could be cured with a finger up the rectum and a study into why woodpeckers do not get headaches.

 

http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews....ence+NewsNews-2

Not noted in the article is that the person sticking their finger into your butt has to be drinking a glass of water from the opposite side of the glass.

Well, they say that scaring someone is a way to cure hiccups, and a Rectal Invasion would certainly firghten me!

IgNobel is good stuff