] A study showing the link between country music and
] suicide has taken one of the top prizes in this year's
] Ig-Nobel awards - the humorous alternative to the Nobel
] prizes.
]
] Other winners include the inventor of the karaoke
] machine, the man who patented the "comb-over" for
] covering the head of bald men and a student who
] investigated the danger of eating food that has fallen on
] the floor. The 10 winners of the 2004 Ig-Nobel prizes -
] which celebrate the bizarre, weird, funny and improbable
] elements of genuine scientific inquiry - received their
] awards last night at a ceremony at Harvard University in
] Boston.