Unusual achievements including unboiling an egg and measuring the pain of bee stings in 25 areas of the body were celebrated at the 2015 Ig Nobel Prizes.
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Professor Raston from Flinders University in Adelaide took out this prize for creating the vortex fluidic device, which can unravel proteins or “unboil” an egg.
Other groups got recognition for securing a heavy continue with a chicken’s rear to show how dragons might own sauntered, and then for exhibiting that is actually discerning…
Mark Dingemanse and two colleagues at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, Netherlands, won the Ig Nobel for literature for determining that the word “huh” is used in languages around the world, including some of the most obscure.
The Ig Noblel Prizes are a parody of the most famously known Nobel Prizes that feature multiple researchers achieving great progress in their field of study.
Fortunately, it was all worth it, for it earnt him an Ig Nobel prize for physiology and entomology, according to a report in The Mirror.
Writing in the journal PeerJ, Mr Smith said: “For the most painful locations, sting depth may be important, because the skin is thinnest on the genitals, followed by the face”.
The physics prize was handed to scientists at Georgia Tech University in the U.S. , who tested the principal that almost all mammals, from chihuahuas to elephants, empty their bladder in about 21 seconds.
The biology prize went to a project that involved sticking artificial tails to chickens to study the locomotion of living descendents of dinosaurs.
Another victor for the mathematics prize has delved into the unconventional algorithm of the intimate aspects of Moroccan Emperor Moulay Ismael the Bloodthirsty, and has discovered that the man ruling from 1672 to 1727 could have indeed fathered 888 children.
In other pain related research the Diagnostic Medicine Prize went to work that determined that acute appendicitis can be accurately diagnosed by the amount of pain evident when the patient is driven over speed bumps.
True to its spirt, Ig Nobel winners also receive a cash award of 10 trillion Zimbabwe dollars, equivalent to just about couple of United States dollars.
A PhD student from Cornell University, Michael Smith, has a chance to enter history books for ranking the pain of bee stings on different parts of the body.
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The worst places, he concluded, were the nostril, the upper lip and the penis. As for how many women it would have taken to account for so many children, the number ranged from 65 to 110. Founder Abrahams said that the Ig Nobels is a way to “engage those already interested in science and those who feel intimidated by it”.
