Eccoli, senza prenderci troppo sul serio. You can watch the video on our youTube Channel. MANAGEMENT PRIZE: Alessandro Pluchino, Andrea Rapisarda, and Cesare Garofalo of the University of Catania, Italy, for demonstrating mathematically that organizations would become more efficient if they promoted people at random. Shigeru Watanabe, Mineko Ohnishi, Kaori Imai, Eiji Kawano, and Seiji Igarashi, for estimating the total saliva volume produced per day by a typical five-year-old child Da oggi, sì: Stephen Reber, zoologo cognitivo dell'Università di Lund (Svezia) ha tentato qualcosa di simile in un esperimento sui vocalizzi animali che si è distinto nell'edizione 2020 degli Ig Nobel, i premi alle ricerche scientifiche "che prima fanno ridere e poi riflettere". REFERENCE: “Is That Me or My Twin? SOCIOLOGY: Steve Penfold, of York University in Toronto, for doing his PhD thesis on the sociology of Canadian donut shops. 307, no. REFERENCE: Surgery, September 1986, pp. REFERENCE: “Why Do Old Men Have Big Ears?” James A. Heathcote, British Medical Journal, vol. LITERATURE PRIZE [AUSTRALIA, EL SALVADOR, UK] — Thea Blackler, Rafael Gomez, Vesna Popovic and M. Helen Thompson, for documenting that most people who use complicated products do not read the instruction manual. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION: Hyuk-ho Kwon of Kolon Company of Seoul, Korea, for inventing the self-perfuming business suit. 2, March 2006, pp. 2, pp. 6, 31, no. REFERENCE: “Actions Needed to Evaluate the Impact of Efforts to Estimate Costs of Reports and Studies,” US Government General Accountability Office report GAO-12-480R, May 10, 2012. [NOTE: Two days after the ceremony, Anita Eerland and Rolf Zwaan married each other, in the Netherlands.]. REFERENCE: “Consequences of Erudite Vernacular Utilized Irrespective of Necessity: Problems with Using Long Words Needlessly,” Daniel M. Oppenheimer, Applied Cognitive Psychology, vol. unable to attend the ceremony, was presented with the prize at a special ceremony, later in the month, at the Genoa Science Festival. Knols, Experientia, vol. REFERENCE: “Physics Takes the Biscuit“, Len Fisher, Nature, vol. 28, no. Roger Mieusset and Bourras Bengoudifa, for measuring scrotal temperature asymmetry in naked and clothed postmen in France. 1, July 1998, pp. 23/09/2020 23/09/2020 by Daniel. CHEMISTRY PRIZE: Makoto Imai, Naoki Urushihata, Hideki Tanemura, Yukinobu Tajima, Hideaki Goto, Koichiro Mizoguchi and Junichi Murakami of JAPAN, for determining the ideal density of airborne wasabi (pungent horseradish) to awaken sleeping people in case of a fire or other emergency, and for applying this knowledge to invent the wasabi alarm. Entre las... Paulina Martinez. 6698, 2019. 383-9.]. 1006-1010. WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY: They delivered a short video acceptance speech, filmed in a cave. REFERENCE: “The Dignity of Living Beings With Regard to Plants. 211-8. WHO ATTENDED THE IG NOBEL CEREMONY: James Gundlach. 1, January 2013, pp. This update includes the Single On-Premises Multi-Tenant feature and other fixes in Exchange Hybrid.. 23, June 5 2007, pp. PRESS NOTE: Toscanini’s Ice Cream, the finest ice cream shop in Cambridge, Massachusetts, created a new ice cream flavor in honor of Mayu Yamamoto, and introduced it at the Ig Nobel ceremony. WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY: Stephan Bolliger. 147-151. WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY: Kiyoshi Mabuchi. Chi porta a casa (da casa) il premio quest’anno? MEDICINE PRIZE: Mirjam Tuk (of THE NETHERLANDS and the UK), Debra Trampe (of THE NETHERLANDS) and Luk Warlop (of BELGIUM). [Published as “Of Mites and Man,” The Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, vol. their applications in: Chemistry, Physics, Biology, Ecology, refusing to pay for their company’s losses, Babymaker : Fertility Fraud and the Fall of Dr. Cecil, Nesmeyanov Institute of Organoelement Compounds. WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY: Matteo Martini, Ilaria Bufalari. 74-76. NUTRITION PRIZE. First Report of Human Blood in the Diet of the Hairy-Legged Vampire Bat, The Neural Bases of Disgust for Cheese: An fMRI Study, Is That Me or My Twin? PEACE PRIZE: Alexander Lukashenko, president of Belarus, for making it illegal to applaud in public, AND to the Belarus State Police, for arresting a one-armed man for applauding. Conversational infrastructure and the convergent evolution of linguistic items, What Doesn’t Kill You Will Only Make You More Risk-Loving: Early-Life Disasters and CEO Behavior, Kissing Reduces Allergic Skin Wheal Responses and Plasma Neurotrophin Levels, Reduction of Allergic Skin Weal Responses by Sexual Intercourse in Allergic Patients, Kissing Selectively Decreases Allergen-Specific IgE Production in Atopic Patients, Prevalence and Persistence of Male DNA Identified in Mixed Saliva Samples After Intense Kissing, Walking Like Dinosaurs: Chickens with Artificial Tails Provide Clues about Non-Avian Theropod Locomotion, Pain Over Speed Bumps in Diagnosis of Acute Appendicitis: Diagnostic Accuracy Study, Hemolytic Activities of Stinging Insect Venoms, Honey Bee Sting Pain Index by Body Location, 24th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, Seeing Jesus in Toast: Neural and Behavioral Correlates of Face Pareidolia, Creatures of the Night: Chronotypes and the Dark Triad Traits, Changes in personality profile of young women with latent toxoplasmosis. En anglès Ig Nobel es pronuncia igual que ignoble, que significa "innoble", d'aquí el nom. PUBLISHED IN: Social Forces, vol. The ceremony was webcast live. Mr. A salire sul podio per la sezione acustica è stato un team di ricercatori internazionali, per aver indagato più a fondo le caratteristiche vocalizzazioni degli alligatori cinesi (Alligator sinensis). 1–10. 1282. 1, September 1992, pp. Conclusioni: sì, a quanto pare gli alligatori asiatici emettono formanti, e potrebbero usarli come strumento per comunicare informazioni sulle loro dimensioni. (奚广安) Xi Guang-An, (莫天祥) Mo Tian-Xiang, (杨康生) Yang Kang-Sheng, (杨广生) Yang Guang-Sheng, and (凌显四) Ling Xian Si, five professional hitmen in Guangxi, China, who managed a contract for a hit job (a murder performed for money) in the following way: After accepting payment to perform the murder, Xi Guang-An then instead subcontracted the task to Mo Tian-Xiang, who then instead subcontracted the task to Yang Kang-Sheng, who then instead subcontracted the task to Yang Guang-Sheng, who then instead subcontracted the task to Ling Xian-Si, with each subsequently enlisted hitman receiving a smaller percentage of the fee, and nobody actually performing a murder. van Bronswijk Vakblad voor Biologen, vol. 2, 1996, pp. WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY: Marisa López-Teijón, Álex García-Faura, Alberto Prats-Galino, and Luis Pallarés Aniorte. “Elements of Draping,” E. Cerda, L. Mahadevan and J. Passini, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY: Jaroslava Durdiaková and Peter Celec will be at the ceremony. ECONOMICS: Ravi Batra of Southern Methodist University, shrewd economist and best-selling author of “The Great Depression of 1990” ($17.95) and “Surviving the Great Depression of 1990” ($18.95), for selling enough copies of his books to single-handedly prevent worldwide economic collapse. 395-8. The 2008 Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded on Thursday night, October 2nd, 2008 at the 18th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, at Harvard’s Sanders Theatre. 825-31. Do NOT follow this link or you will be banned from the site! Metin Eren, Michelle Bebber, James Norris, Alyssa Perrone, Ashley Rutkoski, Michael Wilson, and Mary Ann Raghanti, for showing that knives manufactured from frozen human feces do not work well. MEDICINE: Alan Kligerman, deviser of digestive deliverance, vanquisher of vapor, and inventor of Beano, for his pioneering work with anti-gas liquids that prevent bloat, gassiness, discomfort and embarassment. È Samuela Bolgan, docente psicologa, all’epoca ricercatrice presso l’Abertay University che ha preso parte al lavoro, a spiegarci qualcosa in più al riguardo e come è nata la ricerca. PSYCHOLOGY PRIZE [UK, FINLAND, AUSTRALIA, USA]: Peter K. Jonason, Amy Jones, and Minna Lyons, for amassing evidence that people who habitually stay up late are, on average, more self-admiring, more manipulative, and more psychopathic than people who habitually arise early in the morning. Els premis pretenen celebrar l'inusual, honrar l'imaginatiu i estimular l'interès de tots per la ciència, la medicina, i la tecnologia. 80, nos. 12, 1986, pp. [a video accompanies the paper.]. REFERENCE: Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think, Brian Wansink Bantom Books, 2006, ISBN 0553804340. WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY: Brian Wansink. ATTENDING THE THE CEREMONY: Johan Pettersson. [NOTE: THE JOURNAL LATER CHANGED ITS NAME. PEACE PRIZE: Stephan Bolliger, Steffen Ross, Lars Oesterhelweg, Michael Thali and Beat Kneubuehl of the University of Bern, Switzerland, 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. Com cada any recorden, són uns premis atorgats a estudis científics que primer fan riure, però també fan pensar. What is the IG Nobel Prize? 1, no. REFERENCE: “The Spermicidal Potency of Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola,” C.Y. 166, no. 1, 2016, pp. ASTROPHYSICS: Dr. Jack and Rexella Van Impe of Jack Van Impe Ministries, Rochester Hills, Michigan, for their discovery that black holes fulfill all the technical requirements to be the location of Hell. Knols, The Lancet, vol. WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY: Francis McGlone delivered an acceptance speech via recorded video. 24, no. REFERENCE: “Barings Lost : Nick Leeson and the Collapse of Barings Plc,” and “Big Bets Gone Bad”, MEDICINE: Marcia E. Buebel, David S. Shannahoff-Khalsa, and Michael R. Boyle, for their invigorating study entitled “The Effects of Unilateral Forced Nostril Breathing on Cognition.”. REFERENCE: “Ponytail Motion,” Joseph B. Keller, SIAM [Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics] Journal of Applied Mathematics, vol. FLUID DYNAMICS PRIZE [SOUTH KOREA, USA] — Jiwon Han, for studying the dynamics of liquid-sloshing, to learn what happens when a person walks backwards while carrying a cup of coffee. 6, 2001, p. The ceremony was webcast live. 21-26.]. 217-23.]. 86, 2002, p. 843. La ceremonia de este año, que tuvo lugar el jueves, fue transmitida por Internet debido a la pandemia. It is the type of prize that brings thought and interest in different fields such as medicine, science and technology.The time of the event is held every september in Harvard’s Sander theatre. BIOLOGY: T. Yagyu, J. Wackermann, T. Kinoshita, T. Hirota, K. Kochi, I. Kondakor, Thomas König, and Dietrich Lehmann, from the University Hospital of Zurich, Switzerland, from Kansai Medical University in Osaka, Japan, and from Neuroscience Technology Research in Prague, Czech Republic, for measuring people’s brainwave patterns while they chewed different flavors of gum. The Salesman of the Century : Inventing, Marketing. PUBLIC HEALTH PRIZE: Elena N. Bodnar, Raphael C. Lee, and Sandra Marijan of Chicago, Illinois, USA, for inventing a brassiere that, in an emergency, can be quickly converted into a pair of protective face masks, one for the brassiere wearer and one to be given to some needy bystander. 22, November 1995, pp. REFERENCE: “Fetal Acoustic Stimulation Device,” patent ES2546919B1, granted September 29, 2015 to Luis y Pallarés Aniorte and Maria Luisa López-Teijón Pérez. REFERENCE: “Reduction of Allergic Skin Weal Responses by Sexual Intercourse in Allergic Patients,” Hajime Kimata, Sexual and Relationship Therapy, vol 19, no. 512-519. REFERENCE: “In-Vivo Biomagnetic Characterisation of the American Cockroach,” Ling-Jun Kong, Herbert Crepaz, Agnieszka Górecka, Aleksandra Urbanek, Rainer Dumke, Tomasz Paterek, Scientific Reports, vol. Fuster, Paul Newman and Ada Hirschman, Lancet, vol. You can watch the video on our youTube Channel. 1056-60. WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY: Richard Stephens. REFERENCE: “Behavioural and electrophysiological responses of the female malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae (Diptera: Culicidae) to Limburger cheese volatiles,” Bulletin of Entomological Research, B.G.J. WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY: Elisabeth Oberzaucher. HYGIENE: Eduardo Segura, of Lavakan de Aste, in Tarragona, Spain, for inventing a washing machine for cats and dogs. Topics. REFERENCE: “Rollercoaster Asthma: When Positive Emotional Stress Interferes with Dyspnea Perception,” Simon Rietveld and Ilja van Beest, Behaviour Research and Therapy, vol. 1, 2006, pp. 346-348.]. REFERENCE: “Sounds Produced by Herring (Clupea harengus) Bubble Release,” Magnus Wahlberg and Håkan Westerberg, Aquatic Living Resources, vol. PEACE: Edward Teller, father of the hydrogen bomb and first champion of the Star Wars weapons system, for his lifelong efforts to change the meaning of peace as we know it. Infine parliamo di premi IgNobel 2020 ormia arrivati alla 30ma edizione. Vi lasciamo con una perla citata in puntata, ovvero il coccodrillo che fa un verso stranissimo. 2646-7. WHO ATTENDED THE IG NOBEL CEREMONY: Brian Gettelfinger and Edward Cussler. 42, October 16, 2007, pp. 395-6. REFERENCE: “Walking With Coffee: Why Does It Spill?” Hans C. Mayer and Rouslan Krechetnikov, Physical Review E, vol. ART: Presented jointly to Jim Knowlton, modern Renaissance man, for his classic anatomy poster “Penises of the Animal Kingdom,” and to the U.S. National Endowment for the Arts for encouraging Mr. Knowlton to extend his work in the form of a pop-up book. 22 no. A quanto pare aver confidenza con animaletti con sei zampe (insetti) non mette al riparo da disgusto e in alcuni casi fobia nei confronti di altri artropodi, come i ragni (a otto zampe). 4, 2008, pp. Moral Consideration of Plants for Their Own Sake, The Role of Armadillos in the Movement of Archaeological Materials: An Experimental Approach, A Comparison of Jump Performances of the Dog Flea, Ctenocephalides canis (Curtis, 1826) and the Cat Flea, Ctenocephalides felis felis (Bouche, 1835), Commercial Features of Placebo and Therapeutic Efficacy, Intelligence: Maze-Solving by an Amoeboid Organism. REFERENCE: Being a Beast, by Charles Foster, Profile Books, 2016, ISBN 978-1781255346. WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY: Charles Foster, Thomas Thwaites. Premier League (Liga, England) ⬢ 12. REFERENCE: “Effect of ‘Coke’ on Sperm Motility,” Sharee A. Umpierre, Joseph A. Hill, and Deborah J. Anderson, New England Journal of Medicine, 1985, vol. WHO PARTICIPATED IN THE CEREMONY: Nienke Vulink, Damiaan Denys, and Arnoud van Loon. REFERENCE: “Swearing as a Response to Pain,” Richard Stephens, John Atkins, and Andrew Kingston, Neuroreport, vol. Some days after the ceremony came news that he is alive and well. 231-5. LITERATURE PRIZE: The US Government General Accountability Office, for issuing a report about reports about reports that recommends the preparation of a report about the report about reports about reports. REFERENCE: “Infant Washer and Diaper-Changer Apparatus and Method,” US patent 10034582, granted to Iman Farahbakhsh, July 31, 2018. 7, no. WHO ATTENDED THE IG NOBEL CEREMONY: All three co-authors. Experimental study,” Ahmed Shafik, European Urology, vol. ¿Quién no conoce los premios Nobel? A Survey of Frog Odorous Secretions, Their Possible Functions and Phylogenetic Significance, Chemical and Olfactory Characterization of Odorous Compounds and Their Precursors in the Parotoid Gland Secretion of the Green Tree Frog, Litoria caerulea, Pressures Produced When Penguins Pooh — Calculations on Avian Defaecation, 14th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, Coordination Modes in the Multisegmental Dynamics of Hula Hooping, Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences, investigating the scientific validity of the Five-Second Rule, If You Drop It, Should You Eat It? 8, no. 1, 1989, pp. 31-8. REFERENCE: “A Chinese Alligator in Heliox: Formant Frequencies in a Crocodilian,” Stephan A. Reber, Takeshi Nishimura, Judith Janisch, Mark Robertson, and W. Tecumseh Fitch, Journal of Experimental Biology, vol. The 2016 Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded on Thursday night, September 22, 2016 at the 26th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, at Harvard’s Sanders Theatre. G.J. You can look it up. REFERENCE: “Money and Transmission of Bacteria,” Habip Gedik, Timothy A. Voss, and Andreas Voss, Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control, vol. The ceremony was webcast live. 20, May 13, 1972, pp. David Sims of Cass Business School. REFERENCE: “The Brand Personality of Rocks: A Critical Evaluation of a Brand Personality Scale,” Mark Avis, Sarah Forbes ,and Shelagh Ferguson, Marketing Theory, vol. VIDEO. MEDICINE: Willibrord Weijmar Schultz, Pek van Andel, and Eduard Mooyaart of Groningen, The Netherlands, and Ida Sabelis of Amsterdam, for their illuminating report, “Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Male and Female Genitals During Coitus and Female Sexual Arousal.” [Published in British Medical Journal, vol. PEACE: Claire Rind and Peter Simmons of Newcastle University, in the U.K., for electrically monitoring the activity of a brain cell in a locust while that locust was watching selected highlights from the movie “Star Wars.”. vol. REFERENCE: “Physics Takes the Biscuit“, Len Fisher, Nature, 397, no. PSYCHOLOGY PRIZE: Anita Eerland and Rolf Zwaan [THE NETHERLANDS] and Tulio Guadalupe [PERU, RUSSIA, and THE NETHERLANDS] for their study “Leaning to the Left Makes the Eiffel Tower Seem Smaller”. Sembrerebbero non avere nulla a che spartire, i baci sulla bocca e il reddito di una popolazione. Rentz, Antenna: Proceedings (A) of the Royal Entomological Society London, vol. REFERENCE: “European System of National and Regional Accounts (ESA 2010),” Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union, 2013. You can watch the video on our youTube Channel. LITERATURE: The editors of the journal Social Text, for eagerly publishing research that they could not understand, that the author said was meaningless, and which claimed that reality does not exist. VIDEO. REFERENCE: “Does Knuckle Cracking Lead to Arthritis of the Fingers?“, Donald L. Unger, Arthritis and Rheumatism, vol. 732-36. 397, no. Vi lasciamo con una perla citata in puntata, ovvero il coccodrillo che fa un verso stranissimo. WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY: Diallah Karim, Anthony Harnden, Helen Ashdown, Nigel D’Souza, Abdel Kader Allouni. REFERENCE: “Tumbling toast, Murphy’s Law and the fundamental constants,” “European Journal of Physics,” vol.16, no.4, July 18, 1995, p. 172-6. 18 settembre 2020 10:09 IgNobel 2020, ai leader mondiali il "premio" per la gestione della pandemia Lo stravagante riconoscimento a Trump, Putin, Bolsonaro, Erdogan e Boris Johnson. 12, 2009, pp. They and two other colleagues shared the 2015 Ig Nobel Physics Prize, for testing the biological principle that nearly all mammals empty their bladders in about 21 seconds (plus or minus 13 seconds). BIOLOGY: Benjamin Smith of the University of Adelaide, Australia and the University of Toronto, Canada and the Firmenich perfume company, Geneva, Switzerland, and ChemComm Enterprises, Archamps, France; Craig Williams of James Cook University and the University of South Australia; Michael Tyler of the University of Adelaide; Brian Williams of the University of Adelaide; and Yoji Hayasaka of the Australian Wine Research Institute; for painstakingly smelling and cataloging the peculiar odors produced by 131 different species of frogs when the frogs were feeling stressed. LITERATURE: The Internet entrepreneurs of Nigeria, for creating and then using e-mail to distribute a bold series of short stories, thus introducing millions of readers to a cast of rich characters — General Sani Abacha, Mrs. Mariam Sanni Abacha, Barrister Jon A Mbeki Esq., and others — each of whom requires just a small amount of expense money so as to obtain access to the great wealth to which they are entitled and which they would like to share with the kind person who assists them. Dorian Raymer of the Ocean Observatories Initiative at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA, and Douglas Smith of the University of California, San Diego, USA, for proving mathematically that heaps of string or hair or almost anything else will inevitably tangle themselves up in knots. Stephan Reber, Takeshi Nishimura, Judith Janisch, Mark Robertson, and Tecumseh Fitch, for inducing a female Chinese alligator to bellow in an airtight chamber filled with helium-enriched air. 49–57. Semplice, dalle sopracciglia. REFERENCE: “Sword Swallowing and Its Side Effects,” Brian Witcombeand Dan Meyer, British Medical Journal, December 23, 2006, vol. ATTENDING THE CEREMONY: All the co-authors. 14, no. ACOUSTICS PRIZE: Kazutaka Kurihara and Koji Tsukada [JAPAN] for creating the SpeechJammer — a machine that disrupts a person’s speech, by making them hear their own spoken words at a very slight delay. 439-451. “L’idea era quella di capire se nei paesi avanzati e che godono di buona salute, dove apparentemente si dà meno importanza ai legami affettivi e più ad altri aspetti, quale il lavoro, gli hobby, il bacio fosse considerato in modo diverso rispetto a quelli meno avanzati”. 9, No. WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY: Justin Schmidt and Michael Smith. Quali Donald Trump, Jair Bolsonaro, Boris Johnson, Narendra Modi (India), Vladimir Putin e Recep Tayyip Erdogan (Turchia). 102002, October 2019. [REFERENCE: “Project Grizzly“, produced by the “National Film Board of Canada. REFERENCE: “Duration of Urination Does Not Change With Body Size,” Patricia J. Yang, Jonathan Pham, Jerome Choo, and David L. Hu, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 3, October 1, 2000, pp. REFERENCE: “Auditory stimulation of opera music induced prolongation of murine cardiac allograft survival and maintained generation of regulatory CD4+CD25+ cells,” Masateru Uchiyama, Xiangyuan Jin, Qi Zhang, Toshihito Hirai, Atsushi Amano, Hisashi Bashuda and Masanori Niimi, Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery, vol. 69, no. 10, October 2016, article 511. CHEMISTRY: Theodore Gray (USA and Switzerland), for gathering many elements of the periodic table, and assembling them into the form of a four-legged periodic table table. [REFERENCE: “Gorbachev! 116, no. 389, no. PHYSICS PRIZE: Lianne Parkin, Sheila Williams, and Patricia Priest of the University of Otago, New Zealand, for demonstrating that, on icy footpaths in wintertime, people slip and fall less often if they wear socks on the outside of their shoes. MEDICINE PRIZE [FRANCE, UK] — Jean-Pierre Royet, David Meunier, Nicolas Torquet, Anne-Marie Mouly, and Tao Jiang, for using advanced brain-scanning technology to measure the extent to which some people are disgusted by cheese. REFERENCE: “Describing the Relationship between Cat Bites and Human Depression Using Data from an Electronic Health Record,” David Hanauer, Naren Ramakrishnan, Lisa Seyfried, PLoS ONE, vol. The ceremony was webcast live. REFERENCE: The paper was “Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity,” Alan Sokal, Social Text, Spring/Summer 1996, pp. PHYSICS: Robert Matthews of Aston University, England, for his studies of Murphy’s Law, and especially for demonstrating that toast often falls on the buttered side. ... L’IgNobel 2020 per il management è andato alla Cina per un caso di un omicidio su commissione più volte subappaltato. Richard Vetter, for collecting evidence that many entomologists (scientists who study insects) are afraid of spiders, which are not insects. ENGINEERING PRIZE [IRAN] 1, January 2005, pp 95-100. WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY: The winners could not travel to the ceremony, so they instead delivered their acceptance speech via recorded video. CHEMISTRY: Ivette Bassa, constructor of colorful colloids, for her role in the crowning achievement of twentieth century chemistry, the synthesis of bright blue Jell-O. ‘REFERENCE: “The Therapeutic Touch,” Dolores Krieger, Erik Peper, and Sonia Ancoli, The American Journal of Nursing, vol. 1643-1650. 393–396. 81, no. WordPress 53, no. 24, no. 165-174. ANATOMY PRIZE [FRANCE] 95, no. REFERENCE: “Ovulatory Cycle Effects on Tip Earnings by Lap Dancers: Economic Evidence for Human Estrus?” Geoffrey Miller, Joshua M. Tybur, Brent D. Jordan, Evolution and Human Behavior, vol. 545– 547. “Geometry and Physics of Wrinkling,” E. Cerda and L. Mahadevan, Physical Review Letters, fol. de Waal and Jennifer J. Pokorny, Advanced Science Letters, vol. The 1999 Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded on Thursday night, September 30th, 1999 at the 9th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, at Harvard’s Sanders Theatre. IgNobel 2020 per il managment va alla Cina, per il caso di un omicidio su commissione e più volte subappaltato, passando di mano in mano, ogni volta con una riduzione del compenso per il sicario. 2-3, November 2003, pp. Babymaker : Fertility Fraud and the Fall of Dr. Cecil Jacobson“]. ], METEOROLOGY: Bernard Vonnegut of the State University of Albany, for his revealing report, “Chicken Plucking as Measure of Tornado Wind Speed.” [Published in “Weatherwise,” October 1975, p. 20, no. 151-159. 45, 2006, pp. NUTRITION PRIZE: Brian Wansink of Cornell University, for exploring the seemingly boundless appetites of human beings, by feeding them with a self-refilling, bottomless bowl of soup. 307, no. “The Ig Nobel awards are arguably the highlight of the scientific calendar.” — Nature. REFERENCE: “The Effect of Acute Increase in Urge to Void on Cognitive Function in Healthy Adults,” Matthew S. Lewis, Peter J. Snyder, Robert H. Pietrzak, David Darby, Robert A. Feldman, Paul T. Maruff, Neurology and Urodynamics, vol. 239-249. The ceremony was webcast. REFERENCE: “Arachnophobic Entomologists: When Two More Legs Makes a Big Difference,” Richard S. Vetter, American Entomologist, vol. 61, no. BIOLOGY PRIZE: Fumiaki Taguchi, Song Guofu, and Zhang Guanglei of Kitasato University Graduate School of Medical Sciences in Sagamihara, Japan, for demonstrating that kitchen refuse can be reduced more than 90% in mass by using bacteria extracted from the feces of giant pandas. 523-31. WHO ATTENDED THE IG NOBEL CEREMONY: John Culvenor. 60, no. 158, August, 1993, pp. 3, 1994, pp. The 2015 Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded on Thursday night, September 17th, 2015 at the 25th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, at Harvard’s Sanders Theatre.
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