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It's Weird Science meets comedy at Ig Nobel awards
THE 23rd edition of the Ig Nobels - awarded by the Annals of Improbable Research as a whimsical counterpart to the Nobel Prizes - has been announced.
Former winners of real Nobels handed out the spoof awards at a ceremony at Harvard University on Thursday night. Here's a look at some of the Ig Nobel winners.
• PEACE PRIZE: Jointly awarded to Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko, for making it illegal to applaud in public, and the Belarus police "for arresting a one-armed man for applauding".
• SAFETY ENGINEERING PRIZE: Went to late US researcher Gustano Pizzo, who invented a system to trap aeroplane hijackers, seal them into a package and parachute them into the hands of police.
• PROBABILITY PRIZE: A team from Britain, the Netherlands and Canada, won for determining that the longer a cow has been lying down, the likelier it is to stand up soon.
• PHYSICS PRIZE: Went to researchers who discovered that some people would be physically capable of running across the surface of a pond - if those people and that pond were on the moon.
• BIOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY PRIZE: Awarded to a team from Sweden, Australia, Germany, Australia and the United Kingdom who found that when dung beetles get lost, they can navigate their way home by looking at the Milky Way.
• PSYCHOLOGY PRIZE: Went to researchers who confirmed that drunk people really do think they are more attractive.
• PUBLIC HEALTH PRIZE: Went to a team of doctors in Thailand who developed treatments for the victims of penile amputations.
• ARCHAEOLOGY PRIZE: Went to a US-Canada team who parboiled a dead shrew, swallowed it without chewing, then studied their excretions to see which bones dissolve in the human digestive system.
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, REUTERS
THE 23rd edition of the Ig Nobels - awarded by the Annals of Improbable Research as a whimsical counterpart to the Nobel Prizes - has been announced.
Former winners of real Nobels handed out the spoof awards at a ceremony at Harvard University on Thursday night. Here's a look at some of the Ig Nobel winners.
• PEACE PRIZE: Jointly awarded to Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko, for making it illegal to applaud in public, and the Belarus police "for arresting a one-armed man for applauding".
• SAFETY ENGINEERING PRIZE: Went to late US researcher Gustano Pizzo, who invented a system to trap aeroplane hijackers, seal them into a package and parachute them into the hands of police.
• PROBABILITY PRIZE: A team from Britain, the Netherlands and Canada, won for determining that the longer a cow has been lying down, the likelier it is to stand up soon.
• PHYSICS PRIZE: Went to researchers who discovered that some people would be physically capable of running across the surface of a pond - if those people and that pond were on the moon.
• BIOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY PRIZE: Awarded to a team from Sweden, Australia, Germany, Australia and the United Kingdom who found that when dung beetles get lost, they can navigate their way home by looking at the Milky Way.
• PSYCHOLOGY PRIZE: Went to researchers who confirmed that drunk people really do think they are more attractive.
• PUBLIC HEALTH PRIZE: Went to a team of doctors in Thailand who developed treatments for the victims of penile amputations.
• ARCHAEOLOGY PRIZE: Went to a US-Canada team who parboiled a dead shrew, swallowed it without chewing, then studied their excretions to see which bones dissolve in the human digestive system.
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, REUTERS
