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The scientific world expected each year: the Ig Nobel prize in 2014 were finally awarded. See the full list of the most weird and wacky scientific research conducted around the world
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While some are trying to break the stereotype of the mad scientist, others prefer to accentuate the contrary. Ig Nobel Prizes are awarded annually at Harvard to the most outlandish science and 24th ceremony was held on September 18. Like every year, the ranking has thus proved very colorful!
The program of bacon against nosebleeds or science of the banana peel slipping. But if these issues seem totally wacky, they are far from being devoid of interest as highlighted in the Ig Nobels slogan: “ top feats that make people laugh at first, and then think about doing tribute to honor the originality and imagination “
These prices thus intended to make.” – and to stir people’s interest in science, medicine and technology “. Overview of the charts 2014
Physics
Prize in Physics was awarded to the Japanese team Kiyoshi Mabuchi for the measured friction between a shoe and a banana peel, and between said skin and the ground when stepped on. They thus discovered that the polysaccharide layer covering the skin of the fruit plays a key role in its lubricating effect on the ground. A stunning study published on Tribology Online .
Neurosciences
In the category of Neuroscience, is a team Sino Canadian who won for studying brain function of people who see the face of Jesus in a slice of toasted bread. They found that specific regions of the brain were specialized in pareidolia, the illusion of associating a visual stimulus to inform a clear element as a human or animal form. Quite a paper published in Cortex .
Psychology
Level Psychology, an international team has distinguished itself with their conclusions that persons who watch late at night tend to be much admired, to be manipulative and to be more concerned with psychopathic traits that people who get up early. A paper published in tall Personality and Individual Differences .
Public Health
In terms of public health , three different teams have been praised for their work on the hazard to mental health to have a domestic cat. In causes toxoplasmosis, an infection caused by a parasite and toxoplasmosis and some bites. Studies published in Folia Parasitologica Biological Psychology and PLoS ONE .
Biology
Side biology, it is still an international team that takes all. Their work has shown that dogs prefer to align their bodies with the geomagnetic lines of our planet when they defecate. But it is not clear if the animals do it on purpose or the same report. Work that has appeared in the dog Frontiers in Zoology .
Arts
The arts are not forgotten since trophy was awarded to three Italians found it to be less painful being shot in the hand without laser at a beautiful painting that ugly picture. Really, you have to suffer for art according to the study published in Consciousness and Cognition .
Economy
The Ig Nobel do not discriminate and also attribute a prize in economics. Italy is once again in the spotlight thanks to his national statistics institute for including prostitution, smuggling and drug sales in the calculation of GDP. Not sure that the police enjoy.
Medicine
The price of medicine was awarded to a team of American and Indian researchers for their method to stop nosebleeds through the shoulder of pork or bacon. According to them, this type of poultices would stop the bleeding quickly and effectively, without sequelae. After 24 hours, the patient would have no problem. The schnitzel soon reimbursed by social security? A study in The Annals of otology, Rhinology, Laryngology .
Arctic Science and Nutrition
Arctic science is not left since a German-Norwegian team was warmly applauded for her work showing the Svalbard reindeer twice as responsive to human sight dressed as polar bears that conventional scientists. A study published in icy Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research .
Finally, in the category nutrition, it is Spain that touches the jackpot with their use of bacteria from feces of children to make sausages. No fewer than 109 bacteria producing lactic were identified in the feces of toddlers acid. Bon appetite with this study in Food Microbiology
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