It was at Harvard that the IG 2014 Nobels were awarded to the winners of the awards to recognize projects that make you laugh … but also think.
In the presence of five “real” Nobel GIs Nobels 2014, anti-Nobels were awarded to ten winners. This ceremony, which annually recognizes improbable research that primarily laugh, this work also sobering.
Physics is a Japanese team of Kitasato University, who was rewarded for his work on measuring the coefficient of friction between a human foot and a banana skin, and between the same banana skin and soil.
Neurosciences, the distinction amounts to a Chinese-Canadian team that asked about the people who see the face of Jesus emerging on their toast, that is to say on neural networks to better understand how we recognize faces.
Psychology Australian researchers are rewarded for having shown that night owls are more narcissistic, manipulative, Machiavellian psychopaths that bed early.
Medicine is for proving that ham inserted in the nostril of a 4 year old child suffering from Glanzmann thrombasthenia, a rare disease characterized by defective platelet aggregation, could stop an uncontrollable nosebleed that American and Indian scientists have been rewarded.
Public Health is to explore the links between toxoplasmosis, a disease transmitted by cats, and behavioral changes of their owners an international team received IG Nobels.
In Biology, German and Czech Zambian scientists are rewarded for discovering that dogs do their droppings usually by aligning in a north-south axis.
Arctic Sciences, Norwegian and German researchers have not been afraid to dress up as polar bears to scare reindeer and demonstrate that the real polar bear is a predator for the reindeer.
Arts, Italian researchers have come to the conclusion that there was less harm to an external stimulus when looking at something beautiful. An idea to implement in hospitals
Nutrition, researchers have assumed that it was necessary probiotics to make fermented sausages and the baby poop contains just probiotics. Guess what? To clarify that this project was funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness.
Economy, it is Italy who was rewarded for encouraging EU countries to include income from prostitution, trafficking in drugs smuggling and other illegal transactions in the figures for their respective economies.
While somewhat goofy, yet these projects are indeed thinking.
Marc Abrahams, master of ceremonies for the “Anti-Nobels” shows their award winners in 2014.
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