Showing posts with label rats. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rats. Show all posts

Friday, October 5, 2007

The Ig Nobel Prize in Linguistics

"A University of Barcelona team for showing that rats are unable to tell the difference between a person speaking Japanese backwards and somebody speaking Dutch backwards."

Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7026150.stm

Presumably this means they could tell the difference between Dutch and Japanese spoken forward...

We've got to get going on this blog again!