Claire Rind and Peter Simmons, "Orthopteran DCMD Neuron: A Reevaluation of Responses to Moving Objects, PUBLISHED IN Journal of Neurophysiology (electrically monitoring the activity of a brain cell in a locust while that locust was watching selected highlights from the movie "Star Wars.")
Edward Cussler and Brian Gettelfinger of the University of Minnesota, "Will Humans Swim Faster or Slower in Syrup?" PUBLISHED INAmerican Institute of Chemical Engineers Journal, ((conducting a careful experiment to settle the longstanding scientific question: can people swim faster in syrup or in water?)
Victor Benno Meyer-Rochow of International University Bremen, Germany and the University of Oulu, Finland; and Jozsef Gal of Loránd Eötvös University, Hungary, "Pressures Produced When Penguins Pooh -- Calculations on Avian Defaecation." PUBLISHED IN: Polar Biology ((using basic principles of physics to calculate the pressure that builds up inside a penguin).
Ramesh Balasubramaniam of the University of Ottawa, and Michael Turvey of the University of Connecticut and Haskins Laboratory, "Coordination Modes in the Multisegmental Dynamics of Hula Hooping," PUBLISHED IN Biological Cybernetics ((exploring and explaining the dynamics of hula-hooping).
Ben Wilson of the University of British Columbia, Lawrence Dill of Simon Fraser University [Canada], Robert Batty of the Scottish Association for Marine Science, Magnus Whalberg of the University of Aarhus [Denmark], and Hakan Westerberg of Sweden's National Board of Fisheries, REFERENCE: "Sounds Produced by Herring (Clupea harengus) Bubble Release," PUBLISHED IN Aquatic Living Resources, vol. 16, 2003, pp. 271-5. REFERENCE: "Pacific and Atlantic Herring Produce Burst Pulse Sounds ((showing that herrings apparently communicate by f*rting.)
And finally:
Stefano Ghirlanda, Liselotte Jansson, and Magnus Enquist of Stockholm University, for their report "Chickens Prefer Beautiful Humans." PUBLISHED IN: Human Nature (no explanation necessary or possible).
Well.....
...who DON'T??