![]() ![]() Andre Geim and Sir Michael Berry of England, who used magnets to levitate a frog. Daisuke Inoure of Japan, the inventor of karaoke. Kees Moeliker of the Netherlands, the scientific discoverer of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard duck. See also a webcast recording of the 27th Ig Nobel Price Ceremony 2017.The winners are a varied lot, their accomplishments a testament to the improbability-the unexpectedness-of human thought and behavior. There, the Ig Nobel Prize laureates will “explain what they did, if they can…” In the end, it is always the same goodbye slogan: “If you didn’t win a Ig Nobel Prize and especially if you did – better luck for next year.Īll people who are around in Boston are invited to visit the “Ig Informal Lectures” tomorrow at 1:00 pm at the MIT, building 10, room 250. There are so much that a special stage cleaner must sweep them off. ![]() Another unique tradition is to throw hundreds of paper airplanes onto the stage. The little eight-year old girl continuously interrupts them loudly till they stop. ![]() If they exceed their time-limit, “Miss Sweetie Poo” gets active. When the winners receive their trophy, certificate and Zimbabwean dollar note, they have the chance for a speech to thanks – for exactly 60 seconds. Probably, but not only because the ceremony is so much fun. Most Ig Nobel price laureates accept the price. And finally, scientists from Italy, Spain and the UK demonstrated that many identical twins cannot tell themselves apart visually. A Spanish team around Marisa Lopez-Teijon investigated how human fetus respond to electromagnetically played music in the mother’s vagina compared to the belly. The Ig nutrition prize went to a team of researchers who first reported about human blood in the diet of vampire bats. French and UK scientists used brain scanning technologies to measure the extent to which some people are disgusted by cheese. The Ig biology prize received a team from Japan, Brazil and Switzerland for their finding of a female penis and male vagina in a cave insect. Marc-Antoine Fardin used fluid dynamics to probe the question “Can a cat be both a solid and a liquid?” Another scientist searched for the best way to prevent spilling, when walking around with a cup of coffee in the hand. A team from Switzerland, Canada, The Netherlands and the USA found out, that regular playing Digeridoo can prevent snoring and sleep apnoea. Scientists from Australia and the USA investigated how contact with a live crocodile can influence a person’s willingness to gamble. Ten Ig Nobel Prizes have been awarded in total. For this work, he received the Ig Anatomy Prize. He and his team could prove that male ears grow in average, at about 2mm per decade. One of the glad laureates is the British Scientist James Heathcote, who was honored for his unique research on the correlation of age and ear size in man, mentioned in the beginning. However, even Ig Nobel Prize winners can count themselves lucky: Beside a little fame they also win a unique trophy, a sheet of handwritten paper that announce them to be winner of an Ig Nobel Price as well as a ridiculous prize money of 10 trillion Dollars - Zimbabwean Dollars… Instead, it is organized by the magazine “Annals of Improbable Research“ and the motto of the committee is to honor “research that makes people laugh and then think”. The Ig Nobel Prize has nothing to do with the official Swedish Nobel Prize, which is the most important science award in the world. It is conferred by official Nobel Price laureates in a special, shrilly ceremony at Harvard’s Sanders Theatre in Cambridge. Since 1991, this satirical science prize is awarded every year to scientists who impress by extraordinary ignoble scientific work. Special prize for unconventional research ![]()
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