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The word "ignobel" is rarely used because only a few of us know that it means "characterized by baseness, baseness or meanness". About 30 years ago, a glorious group of great scholars took a literary hatchet to form the word "ig nobel" in order to place it in the dictionary as a term meaning "a satirical social critique that identifies absurd research."
On Thursday night, in front of a sold-out crowd at Harvard's Sanders Theater, the 2018 winners were proclaimed on 28e First Annual Event ("Yeah, it was the first year when we started in 1991 so 'First' is part of the original name.")
You must understand: Hysterical studies are real searches – with legitimate documents and the like. For years, I am passionate about "Igs" and some readers still do not believe anything. That's why this year, laughing with disbelief and wonder, I've included the actual references so that you can research for yourself how to scientifically determine the nutritional value of cannibalism, and this trick that you can use with the stamps.
A drum roll, please, while we honor the …
FIRST WINNERS OF THE 2018 ANNUAL IG NOBEL PRIZE AWARD
PRICE OF MEDICINE [USA] – Marc Mitchell and David Wartinger, for using a roller coaster to try to hasten the passage of kidney stones.
Reference: "Validation of a Functional Pyelocalyceal Renal Model for Assessing the Passage of Kidney Computation by Riding a Roller Coaster", Marc A. Mitchell, David D. Wartinger, The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association, Flight . 116, October 2016, p. 647-652.
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ANTHROPOLOGY AWARD [SWEDEN, ROMANIA, DENMARK, THE NETHERLANDS, GERMANY, UK, INDONESIA, ITALY] – Tomas Persson, Gabriela-Alina Sauciuc and Elainie Madsen, for collecting evidence, in a zoo, that chimpanzees imitate humans about as often and about as well, because humans imitate chimpanzees.
REFERENCE: "Imitation of spontaneous cross species in the interaction between chimpanzees and zoo visitors", Tomas Persson, Gabriela-Alina Sauciuc and Elainie Madsen, Primates, vol. 59, no. 1, January 2018, pp. 19-29.
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BIOLOGICAL PRIZE [SWEDEN, COLOMBIA, GERMANY, FRANCE, SWITZERLAND] – Paul Becher, Sébastien Lebreton, Erika Wallin, Erik Hedenstrom, Felipe Borrero-Echeverry, Marie Bengtsson, Volker Jorger and Peter Witzgall, for demonstrating that wine experts can reliably identify the presence of a single fly in a glass of wine.
REFERENCE: "The perfume of the fly", Paul G. Becher, Sébastien Lebreton, Erika A. Wallin, Erik Hedenstrom, Felipe Borrero-Echeverry, Marie Bengtsson, Volker Jorger and Peter Witzgall, bioRxiv, no. 20637, 2017.
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CHEMISTRY AWARD [PORTUGAL] – Paula Romão, Adília Alarcão and the late Cesar Viana, for measuring how human saliva is a good cleaning agent for dirty surfaces.
REFERENCE: "Human saliva as a cleaning agent for dirty surfaces", by Paula M. S. Romão, Adília M. Alarcão and Cesar A. N. Viana, Studies in Conservation, vol. 35, 1990, pp. 153-155.
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PRICE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION [JAPAN] – Akira Horiuchi, for the medical report "The colonoscopy in sitting position: lessons learned from the auto-colonoscopy".
REFERENCE: "Colonoscopy in a sitting position: lessons from autocoloscopy with the help of a colonoscope with variable stiffness of small caliber", Akira Horiuchi and Yoshiko Nakayama, Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, flight. 63, No. 1, 2006, pp. 119-20.
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LITERATURE PRIZE [AUSTRALIA, EL SALVADOR, UK] – Thea Blackler, Rafael Gomez, Vesna Popovic, and Helen Thompson, for documenting that most people who use complex products do not read the instruction manual.
REFERENCE: "Life is too short for RTFM: how users relate to the documentation and surplus functionality of consumer products", Alethea L. Blackler, Rafael Gomez, Vesna Popovic and Helen Thompson, Interacting With Computers, Flight . 28, no. 1, 2014, pp. 27-46.
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NUTRITION PRIZE [ZIMBABWE, TANZANIA, UK] – James Cole, for calculating that caloric intake from a human-cannibalistic diet is significantly lower than the caloric intake of most other traditional meat-based diets.
REFERENCE: "Evaluation of the calorific significance of episodes of human cannibalism in the Paleolithic", James Cole, Scientific Reports, vol. 7, no 44707, April 7, 2017.
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PRIZE OF PEACE [SPAIN, COLOMBIA] – Francisco Alonso, Cristina Esteban, Andrea Serge, Maria-Luisa Ballestar, Jaime Sanmartin, Constanza Calatayud and Beatriz Alamar, for measuring the frequency, motivation and effects of screams and insults driving a car.
REFERENCE: "Shouting and cursing while driving: Frequency, Reasons, Perceived Risks and Punishments", Francisco Alonso, Cristina Esteban, Andrea Serge and Maria-Luisa Ballestar, Journal of Sociology and Anthropology, vol. 1, no 12017, pp. 1-7.
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REFERENCE: "Justicia in Tragic: Conocimiento and Valoración de la Población Española" [“Justice in Traffic: Knowledge and Valuation of the Spanish Population”)], F. Alonso, J. Sanmartin, C. Calatayud, C. Esteban, B. Alamar and L. Ballestar, Cuadernos de Reflexion Attitudes, 2005.
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PRICE OF REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE [USA, JAPAN, SAUDI ARABIA, EGYPT, INDIA, BANGLADESH] – John Barry, Bruce Blank and Michel Boileau, for using postage stamps to verify the proper functioning of the male sexual organ – as described in their study entitled "Surveillance of nocturnal penile tumescence in the body". using stamps ".
REFERENCE: "Surveillance of nocturnal penile tumescence with patches", John M. Barry, Bruce Blank, Michael Boileau, Urology, vol. 15, 1980, pp. 171-172.
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ECONOMIC PRICE [CANADA, CHINA, SINGAPORE, USA] – Lindie Hanyu Liang, Douglas Brown, Lian Huiwen, Samuel Hanig, Lance Ferris and Lisa Keeping, who sought to find out how effective it was for employees to use voodoo dolls to take revenge on bosses abusive.
REFERENCE: "Fixing an error: revenge on a voodoo doll symbolizing an abusive supervisor: restores justice", Lindie Hanyu Liang, Douglas J. Brown, Huiwen Lian, Samuel Hanig, Lance Ferris and Lisa M. Keeping, February 2018 .
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