A group of Japanese scientists were awarded the Ig Nobel award that celebrates the most disparate studies, for his work to measure the sliding friction that occurs when a banana peel is pressed.
Among other figure awarded a Chinese team that investigated the brains of those who claim to see the face of Jesus on toast.
also north-south German and Czech scientists found that dogs bowel movements tend to align on an axis or a group of researchers from different countries who studied mental dangers of owning a cat as a pet.
“When I found out I had won the Ig Nobel I was surprised and pleased in equal measure,” said Professor Kiyoshi Japanese Mabuchi, which led the investigation conducted by a team from the University of Kitasato- in an interview with Kyodo News.
Mabuchi, 63, professor of medical engineering at this institution, applauded the award, a parody of the prestigious Nobel prizes, which provides visibility to the work of his research group.
The scientific humor magazine Annals of Improbable Research awarded each year’s Ig Nobel, divided into 10 categories, ten unusual or trivial scientific achievements “that first make people laugh and then make them think.” The winning project has practical applications in the area of research Mabuchi: body joints
OTHER WINNERS.. Do you have a dog? And, if so, have you ever noticed if your pet prefers a particular orientation at the right time to relieve themselves in public? Because if he has done, not what he imagined. Winners of ‘IgNobel’ biology have proven that dogs prefer the north-south axis and have done with the help of “citizen-scientists” with pet who installed an app on their smartphones.
denying them the app but compensated with excessive imagination were a couple to Norwegian and German scientists who, wanting to assess how the reindeer react to the increasing presence of polar bears on land by the reduction of sea ice cover, had to While donning a costume polar bear themselves.
The “award for nutrition” was to Raquel Rubio and collaborating on a study that examined the potential use of the feces of infants to ferment sausage ‘ conceited ‘, to be exact.
Italy took the Ig Nobel Art for “relative measure pain that people suffer while watching an ugly picture beautiful-one-rather as a powerful laser you wounded in the hand. ” The second Ig Nobel went to ISTAT, the Italian Statistical Institute of Government “to increase the volume of the national economy, activities included prostitution, illegal drug sales, smuggling and other illegal transactions voluntary” in their accounts.
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