Ten teams from five continents, were honored at the 24th ceremony “IG Nobel Prizes” attended by some 1,100 people at Sanders Theatre at the prestigious American university near Boston ( northeast).
Banana and shoe
Prize in Physics went to a Japanese team who studied the friction between a banana peel and a shoe, and between the skin banana and soil, when someone walks on-called banana peel.
The face of Jesus on toast
The Neuroscience went to a Chinese-Canadian team Beijing and the University of Toronto, who sought to understand what happens in the brains of people who see the face of Jesus on their toast.
Layers-tards pyschopathes
The Anti-Nobel psychology went to three American British and Australian researchers, who collected evidence to the effect that night owls are generally more narcissistic, more manipulative and psychopathic than early risers.
The cat dangerous for mental health
Is it dangerous to mental health to have a cat? The study by researchers from the Czech Republic, Japan, USA and India, has earned them the Nobel anti-public health.
trajectories Manure drain canines
The one biology rewarded a team from Germany, Czech Republic and Zambia, have carefully documented that dogs defecate in generally aligned on a north-south axis.
Laser Ray, painting and pain
Italy, she won the Anti-Nobel in the category of the arts through Marina de Tommaso, University of Bari, Michele and Paolo Sardaro Livrea who measured the pain experienced by people watching an ugly painting, versus admiring a beautiful canvas, when you pull them in hand with a laser beam.
Reindeer and men dressed as polar bears
and Norway, both German and Norwegian researchers at the University of Oslo, Eigil Reimers and Sindre Eftestøl, were awarded the arctic science, having tested the reaction of reindeer when they see people dressed as polar bears.
Prostitution and drugs in the economy
One government was distinguished, that of Italy, including the National Institute of Statistics won the Nobel Anti-d economy for “have proudly taken the lead and fulfilled the mandate of the European Union so that each country increases the official size of its national economy including the earnings of prostitution, illegal drug sales, smuggling and other financial transactions illegal “.
” Anti-Nobel “
This humorous and paper cranes ceremony, were presented to the winners by five real Nobel Prize, Martin Chalfie (chemistry, 2008), Carol Greider (Physiology or Medicine, 2009), Dudley Herschbach (chemistry, 1986), Eric Maskin (economics, 2007), Rich Roberts (Physiology or Medicine, 1993), and Frank Wilczek (physics, 2004).
The ceremony also resulted in the first of a mini-opera in three acts entitled “What you eat ‘, on people who eat more than pills. In the main roles, soprano Maria Ferrante and baritone Scott Taylor. A chorus of microbes had ten biomedical researchers from the Boston area
The principle of these Anti-Nobel prize is immutable. Organized by the Scientific and humorous magazine “The annals of improbable research “(” Annals of Improbable research “), they reward researchers who” make people laugh first and then make them think. “
The winners, who came at their own expense had two minutes for their speech, an 8 year old girl is charged with enforcing this limit.
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