Are Full or Empty Beer Bottles Sturdier and Does Their Fracture-Threshold Suffice to Break the Human Skull?
-- Stephan A. Bolliger, Steffen Ross, Lars Oesterhelweg, Michael J. Thali and Beat P. Kneubuehl, Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine, vol. 16, no. 3, April 2009, pp. 138-42.
A 2009 Ig Nobel Peace prize winner, for determining - by experiment - whether it is better to be smashed over the head with a full bottle of beer or with an empty bottle.