Fact of the Month:

What is the IG annual Nobel awards?
It is the proof that scientists have a sense of humour. This year's crop went to the inventor of an alarm that rings then runs away to hide, thus ensuring that the sleeper has to get up to turn it off...to scientists who researched whether humans swim faster in syrup rather than in water...to a British group who analysed the electrical activity of a locust's brain cell while the insect watched a "Star Wars" movie...and to a German team that calculated the pressure produced in penguins'anuses when the birds expel their faeces.