of photographs that must be taken to (almost) ensure that nobody in a group photo will have their eyes closed. Medicine: Francis M. Fesmire of the University of Tennessee College of Medicine, for his medical case report "Termination of Intractable Hiccups with Digital Rectal Massage"; Nutrition: Wasmia Al-Houty of Kuwait University and Faten Al-Mussalam of the Kuwait Environment Public Authority, for showing that dung beetles are finicky eaters. Ornithology: Ivan R. Schwab, of the University of California, Davis, and Philip R.A. May of the University of California, Los Angeles, for exploring and explaining why woodpeckers don't get headaches. Peace: Howard Stapleton of Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, for inventing an electromechanical teenager repellant – a device that makes annoying high-pitched noise designed to be audible to teenagers but not to adults; and for later using that same technology to make telephone ringtones that are audible to teenagers but probably not to their teachers. Physics: Basile Audoly and Sebastien Neukirch of the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, for their analysis that explains why uncooked spaghetti breaks into several pieces when it is bent. 2007 The ceremony took place on 4 October 2007. Aviation: Patricia V. Agostino, Santiago A. Plano and Diego A. Golombek, for discovering that hamsters recover from jetlag more quickly when given Viagra. Biology: Johanna E.M.H. van Bronswijk, for taking a census of all the mites and other life forms that live in people's beds. Chemistry: Mayu Yamamoto for extracting vanilla flavour from cow dung. Economics: Kuo Cheng Hsieh, for patenting a device to catch bank robbers by ensnaring them in a net. Linguistics: Juan Manuel Toro, Josep B. Trobalon and Nuria Sebastian-Galles, for determining that rats sometimes can't distinguish between recordings of Japanese and Dutch played backward. Literature: Glenda Browne, for her study into indexing entries that start with the definitive article "the". Medicine: Dan Meyer and Brian Witcombe, for investigating the side-effects of swallowing swords. Nutrition: Brian Wansink, for investigating people's appetite for mindless eating by secretly feeding them a self-refilling bowl of soup. Peace: The United States Air Force Wright Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio, for suggesting the research and development of a "gay bomb," which would cause enemy troops to become sexually attracted to each other. Physics: Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan and Enrique Cerda Villablanca for their theoretical study of how sheets become wrinkled. 2008 The ceremony took place on 2 October 2008. Archaeology: Astolfo Gomes de Mello Araujo and