Japanese who discovered the “coefficient of friction of the banana peel” when Spanish tread and proposed making nutritious sausage with droppings babies are some of the scientists awarded this year with awards called “anti Nobel” in Harvard.
The ceremony of the 24th edition of the Ig Nobel Awards took place last night at the Sanders Theatre of the prestigious American university located in Cambridge (north) to over a thousand people and the presence of several of the winners, who receive only a mention and not a cash prize.
These awards honor discoveries that “first make people laugh and then THINK” according to the website of the organizers .
In physics, for example, the award went to Kiyoshi Japanese Mabuchi, Kensei Tanaka Daichi Uchijima and Rina Sakai, to measure the amount of friction between the shoe and banana peel and between it and the ground when a person steps on it.
In Nutrition, the prize was taken away the Spanish Raquel Rubio, Anna Jofre, Belén Martín, Teresa Aymerich and Margarita Garriga for their study entitled “Characterization of bacteria acid lactic isolated from feces of infants and growing potential probiotic food fermented sausages. “
One of the curiosities of the ceremony is that the awards are presented by real Nobel laureates.
In this issue attended Martin Chalfie (Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1998), Eric Maskin (Economics, 2007) and Carol Greider (Medicine, 2009), among others.
The ceremony is organized by the magazine scientific humor “Annals of Improbable Research,” which highlighted work into ten categories, some of them without their authors have submitted to the contest. The “Ig Nobel” reward not only individuals but also to companies and governments.
So, in economics prize went to the Italian National Institute of Statistics for “assume leadership and fulfill the mandate of the European Union for individual countries to raise the official size of the national economy including the earnings of prostitution, selling illegal drugs, smuggling and other illicit financial transactions “
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The recesses of the human and animal mind are one of the most fertile fields of research of the winners of the Ig
Neuroscience, the winners were researchers from Canada and China for “trying to understand what happens in the brains of people who see the face of Jesus on a piece of toast.”
The Arctic Science Award got it Eftestol Eigil Reimers and Sindre, Norwegian and Germany respectively for “testing how reacts a reindeer to see humans dressed as polar bears.”
In Psychology, Peter Jonason (Australia), Amy Jones (UK) and Minna Lyons (USA) were recognized by “amassing evidence that people who regularly stays up late is, on average, more narcissistic, manipulative and psychopathic people who usually gets up early in the morning.”
In Public Health, researchers Czech Republic, Japan, United States and India were highlighted by studying “whether to have a cat is dangerous to the mind of a human being.”
At the ceremony, which was presented a mini-opera, each winner had a maximum of 60 seconds for award acceptance speech.
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