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...satirical; it entangles bodies in psychology, politics, ethics, religion. Middleton dramatized incest, an adult son obsessed with his mother's sexuality, a husband happily pimping his wife, a husband literally selling his wife, a husband brutally raping his wife. He wrote of transvestism, stalking, sexual blackmail, castration, impotence, masochism, necrophilia and an adulteress forced to eat her lover's corpse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bawdy Bard | 11/7/2007 | See Source »

...many who have become regular fixtures at the Ig Nobel prize ceremony. Kees Moeliker said he has flown over from the Netherlands for the Ig Nobels every year since winning in a prize in 2003 for his recording of the world’s first known case of homosexual necrophilia in a male duck. He is the European Bureau Chief at the Annals of Improbable Research, which presents the awards. His favorite winner this year? Glenda Browne, an indexer who studied the difficulties presented by the word “the,” from issues of when to capitalize...

Author: By Erin C. Yu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Eccentricity Entertains at Ig Nobels | 10/5/2007 | See Source »

...Date-With-a-Nobel-Laureate” contest, and a new mini-opera entitled “Inertia Makes the World Go Round,” the ceremony found time to recognize past Ig Nobel celebrities. 2003 winner C.W. Moeliker, who documented the first scientifically recorded case of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard duck, was on hand along with Lisa R. Danielson and William L. Sefanov who were married at the 2001 complexity-themed Ig Nobels. With annual traditions like the launching of paper airplanes constructed from science homework and ceremony programs, the Ig Nobels work to emphasize the lighter...

Author: By Logan R. Ury, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Weird Science Wows At Ig Nobels | 10/6/2006 | See Source »

...mean what can one say about infinity in a minute?” said Kees Moeliker, the keynote address speaker and a 2003 winner for his research documenting the first case of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard duck...

Author: By Laura A. Moore, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Ig Nobels Honor Off-Beat Science | 10/7/2005 | See Source »

Under the weighty Latin inscriptions and massive wood rafters of Sanders theatre, more than 1,000 spectators donning everything from tuxedoes to lab coats honored the first man to record homosexual necrophilia in Mallard ducks last night...

Author: By Kimberly A. Kicenuik, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: At Ig Nobels, Scientists Win For Humor | 10/3/2003 | See Source »

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