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I love it when physicists study slightly mundane things and discover something fun.
There was one a while ago about why spaghetti breaks into three or more pieces if you bend it from the ends until it snaps: doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.095505
A whole series about Guinness (from Limerick, of course)
http://arxiv.org/abs/1105.2263, http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.5233, http://arxiv.org/abs/1103.0508, etc...
Some about string tangling (I pity the grad student) but they won an IgNobel for that
Another about the shape of ponytails (can't be bothered finding the link)
I <3 science etc.