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Shut up! Speech jammer among 2012 Ig Nobel winners
BOSTON (AP) -- A device that gets talkative people to shut up has won an Ig Nobel, the prize given out annually for zany scientific achievement.
The awards are given out by the Annals of Improbable Research magazine. They were handed out Thursday at a silly ceremony at Harvard University that featured a humorous mini-opera and the launching of hundreds of paper airplanes.
The SpeechJammer was invented by Japanese researchers. It repeats the speaker's own voice at a delay of a few hundred milliseconds.
Other winners included engineers who studied coffee sloshing around in a cup; researchers who studied why leaning to the left makes the Eiffel Tower look smaller; a team that demonstrated that sophisticated equipment can detect brain activity in dead fish; and scientists who explained how and why ponytails bounce.
Posted: Friday, September 21 2012, 12:03 AM CDT
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Tornado watch issued for much of Oklahoma
May 19, 2013 20:18 GMT
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- The Storm Prediction Center in Norman has issued a tornado watch for much of Oklahoma.
The watch is in effect until 11 p.m. Sunday and covers central and eastern Oklahoma, including the Tulsa and Oklahoma City metro areas.
Forecasters say there is a risk of severe thunderstorms and very large hail with the developing storm system.
The risk for tornadoes is expected to increase into the evening, especially in eastern Oklahoma.
Forecasters say a few strong tornadoes are possible, as are long-track supercell thunderstorms.
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Tornado Watch currently in effect for central and eastern Oklahoma until 11pm this evening. Dry line is currently in between central and western Oklahoma with storms just starting to fire up. ...
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