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Old 04-09-2013, 08:00 PM
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Important Research from NZ

Good enough to win the 2010 Ignobel Prize in physics.

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Physics: Lianne Parkin, Sheila Williams, and Patricia Priest of the University of Otago, New Zealand, for demonstrating that, on icy footpaths in wintertime, people slip and fall less often if they wear socks on the outside of their shoes
The epoch making paper is here.

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Steven
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