The awards ceremony will be followed on Saturday 19 September by the Ig Informal Lectures at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at which award winners will explain their research at a “half-afternoon of improbably amusing , informative, informal” public lectures.
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The awards are parody of the Nobel Prizes, and are awarded every year.
A group of physicists from the USA and Taiwan discovered a “law of urination” which found that mammals over 3 kg all take about the same time to pee.
Other participants worked for exciting prizes for linking a measured continue with a chicken’s posterior to show how dragons would likely have left, and then for exhibiting that is actually discerning…
He and his team observed that when you attach a weighted stick to the rear end of a chicken, it would move in a manner similar to a dinosaur. Of this year’s winners, no-one was more deserving than PhD student Michael Smith, from Cornell University in the U.S. , who tested the painfulness of bee stings on 25 locations on his own body.
The tarantula hawk, a type of wasp, is at the top of the list for a sting that’s “kind of like getting hit by a lightening bolt”, along with the bullet ant, which hits its victim with waves of pain for 12 to 24 hours, says Schmidt.
Physiology/Entomology: The creation of an insect sting pain index and the research completed by a guy having bees sting him in the least painful and most painful places, including his penis.
The 25th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony was held at Harvard University’s Sanders Theatre Thursday.
The award: a 10 trillion Zimbabwean dollar bill.
While the Nobel Prize tends to get the headlines for the advancements in various fields of human endeavour, arguably one of the more engaging uses of out-there research is found at the Ig Nobel Prize.
To do this, they recorded videos of people conversing in villages around the world, leading to the discovery that the word “huh” is an indispensable tool in human communication.
The LITERATURE PRIZE went to team who diligently scoured the world’s languages to discover that the word “huh?” Another victor was a pair of German and Austrian mathematicians named Elisabeth Oberzaucher and Karl Grammer who investigated if the 17th century Moroccan king Moulay Ismail the Bloodthirsty could have fathered 600 children as the legend goes.
Goodness: The honors are exhibited by real Nobel prize victors, and they are known as the “Ig Nobels”. The researchers said the study “may help to diagnose urinary problems in animals as well as inspire the design of scalable hydrodynamic systems based on those in nature”.
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Bangkok’s Metropolitan Police were honoured in this category for their valiant efforts at cleansing the police force of corruption and bribe-taking-by giving them cash.
