Anti-Nobel 2014: the daftest scientific discoveries – Why Doctor?

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Sometimes screen, researchers have strange ideas. They are trying to determine if a bra can be used as gas masks; or which bones dissolve in the human digestive system that would have swallowed a mole without chewing. Be as farfetched these scientific investigations, they are no less uninteresting …

“The Ig Nobel Prizes honor the work which first laugh and then think,” can be read on the ceremony site. For this 24 ^th edition of the Ig Nobel Prize (pronounced Ig-Nobel as ignoble in English), ten teams from five continents, were honored at Sanders Theatre prestigious American university Harvard. The awards were presented by real Nobels. Short tour of the most unlikely discoveries

Prize in Medicine. Treat nosebleed with bacon
How are they researchers reached this conclusion? Mystery. Still, an Indian and North American team unearthed the strange cure for people suffering from Glanzmann thrombasthenia, a bleeding disorder.

To stop nosebleeds uncontrollable, it Simply pack the nose of patients … with bacon slices. In their study, relayed on the PubMed site, researchers are looking forward to the effectiveness of the method. “Use of smoked pork as nasal swab can be stopped effectively and rapidly bleeding, and without sequelae. “You should have thought.

Price of Neurology: why do we see Jesus on toast
Yes, some people see Christ on their toast. And that’s perfectly normal, according to researchers Sino-Canadian, who won the Nobel Prize in Anti-neurology. The phenomenon, called “pareidolia” is even widespread: it is to put a face to a cause or an object – a cloud, a rock, foam coffee …

“Our study suggests that it is common to see facial features that do not exist yet, because the human brain is only programmed to recognize faces, “write the researchers in this very serious study, published in the journal Cortex .

What, you have NEVER seen Jesus on a slice of bread? That’s done:

Prices Public Health: cats they make us crazy
A team of Czech, Indian and Japanese researchers have attempted how to answer this burning oh question. In several studies, they evaluate the risks to mental health associated with having … owning a cat.

But neither night meow repeated, nor the effect of “old girl living with her cats” does are involved. In fact, researchers have studied the risk of toxoplasmosis, a parasite that particularly like to stay on the cats, and that can trigger in humans, some neuropathological – depression, suicidal thoughts, schizophrenia … First laugh then think

… And the other
– The price of nutrition was awarded to Spanish researchers for their work on the possibility of using bacteria from stools of infants to make sausages. Perfectly normal.

– Prices psychology has returned to a team of researchers have shown that night owls have an increased likelihood of being narcissistic, manipulators and psychopaths compared to early birds

-. Prices physical went to a Japanese team that studied the friction between a banana peel and a shoe that works over .

No French this year … Still, they had distinguished themselves in the previous year thanks to their study on the subject: “Drinking alcohol makes it feel more beautiful? “. (The answer is yes.)

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