BOSTON — A British researcher who lived like a goat in the Swiss Alps has won the biology prize at the Ig Nobels, the annual spoof prizes for quirky scientific achievement. Tom Thwaites had prosthetic legs and arms made so he could walk like an animal, then headed for the hills. “I tried to become a goat to escape the angst inherent in being a human,” Thwaites wrote on his website. Thwaites survived — but had to share the glory at the Ig Nobels, so to speak. This year’s Ig Nobels, sponsored by the science humour magazine Annals of Improbable Research, included research by Fredrik Sjoberg, who published three volumes about collecting hoverflies on the sparsely populated Swedish island where he lives.

Source: National Post September 23, 2016 14:15 UTC