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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIgNobel Prizes: making a chicken walk like a dinosaur, diagnosing appendicitis with speed bumps
and much more.
Physics - Patricia Yang (Georgia Institute of Technology, US) and colleagues, for testing the biological principle that nearly all mammals empty their bladders in about 21 seconds (plus or minus 13 seconds).
Literature - Mark Dingemanse (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, The Netherlands) and colleagues, for discovering that the word "huh?" (or its equivalent) seems to exist in every human language - and for not being quite sure why.
Management - Gennaro Bernile (Singapore Management University) and colleagues, for discovering that many business leaders developed in childhood a fondness for risk-taking, when they experienced natural disasters (such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, and wildfires) that - for them - had no dire personal consequences.
Physiology and entomology - Awarded jointly to two individuals: Justin Schmidt (Southwest Biological Institute, US) for painstakingly creating the Schmidt Sting Pain Index, which rates the relative pain people feel when stung by various insects; and to Michael L. Smith (Cornell University, US), for carefully arranging for honey bees to sting him repeatedly on 25 different locations on his body, to learn which locations are the least painful (the skull, middle toe tip, and upper arm). and which are the most painful (the nostril, upper lip, and penis shaft).
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-34278595
Literature - Mark Dingemanse (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, The Netherlands) and colleagues, for discovering that the word "huh?" (or its equivalent) seems to exist in every human language - and for not being quite sure why.
Management - Gennaro Bernile (Singapore Management University) and colleagues, for discovering that many business leaders developed in childhood a fondness for risk-taking, when they experienced natural disasters (such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, and wildfires) that - for them - had no dire personal consequences.
Physiology and entomology - Awarded jointly to two individuals: Justin Schmidt (Southwest Biological Institute, US) for painstakingly creating the Schmidt Sting Pain Index, which rates the relative pain people feel when stung by various insects; and to Michael L. Smith (Cornell University, US), for carefully arranging for honey bees to sting him repeatedly on 25 different locations on his body, to learn which locations are the least painful (the skull, middle toe tip, and upper arm). and which are the most painful (the nostril, upper lip, and penis shaft).
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-34278595
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IgNobel Prizes: making a chicken walk like a dinosaur, diagnosing appendicitis with speed bumps (Original Post)
muriel_volestrangler
Sep 2015
OP
Those are funny. And I just now sent my grandson the link to the "greatest hits" version -
djean111
Sep 2015
#1
The study of risk-taking business leaders deserves much wider attention !
eppur_se_muova
Sep 2015
#3
djean111
(14,255 posts)1. Those are funny. And I just now sent my grandson the link to the "greatest hits" version -
I especially like the one for someone who figured out why pregnant women do not tip over.
http://www.networkworld.com/article/2984723/data-center/celebrating-25-years-of-wacky-ig-nobel-prize-brilliance.html?phint=newt%3Dnetworkworld_after_dark_alert&phint=idg_eid%3D5f0a20b8e1dc2b9fb54bbd2abad68818#tk.NWWNLE_nlt_afterdark_2015-09-17
longship
(40,416 posts)2. Love the Iggies! R&K nt
eppur_se_muova
(36,271 posts)3. The study of risk-taking business leaders deserves much wider attention !
Especially with The Donhole receiving such attention -- and needed scrutiny.