In the United States awarded the IG Nobel prize for the year 2016. IG or Ignobelevskoy, the word “shameful”, the award is a parody of the prestigious international scientific award. Her reward for a witty and unusual research, stimulating people’s interest in science, medicine and technology. The award was established by Marc Abrahams, and humor magazine “Annals of improbable research in 1991. Antinobelevskoy the prize is awarded “for achievements that first make laugh and then reflect.”
the Hunt for the winner
Received in 2016, the scholarship of the University of Oxford in England Charles foster to receive the IG Nobel prize have been hard: it often hunted. And all because of his scientific activities, reports TASS. He spent months reincarnated in mountain sheep, Fox, Yak, deer or bird, imitating them in everything. The purpose of the transformation of man-sheep to see the world through the eyes of animals. And judging by the prize, the end justify the means. Your observations and impressions of the researcher outlined in the book “to Be a beast.”
Fool me if you can
For original ideas and absurd scientific achievements at Harvard University in the U.S. state of Massachusetts noted Andreas Sprenger from the University of the German city of lübeck. He discovered a simple remedy for itching. If you have a itchy right hand, offered a scientist, so it is necessary to scratch the left hand. But just standing in front of a mirror and looking into it. So a German researcher offers to trick the brain, thus keeping the itching limb from scratching.
Mouse sex in shorts
the Effect of material underwear mating rodents studied Egyptian Ahmad Shafik. Cairo University Professor empirically established: the pants of polyester in mice adversely affect their libido. The reason – the synthetic fabric to neelektrizuyuscheysya.
to Attend the awards ceremony in the United States the scientist of Egypt could not. He died in 2007.
the prize for the poll liars
More than a thousand people ranging in age from six to 77 years interviewed a psychology Professor from the American University of Vanderbilt (state
tn) Gordon Logan with colleagues from Canada and Europe. Summary of the study: the most consummate liars are the young people.
When Logan asked why he co-authors so sure that the respondents did not lie to him.
“we don’t believe in this”, — said the psychologist, receiving the prize.
Shnobel for jurchescu
“I am 15 years wrote books which nobody read, until I realized that it is better to write about what you know well. The topic is not important,” said another winner of the IG Nobel prize, the Swedish entomologist Fredrik Aberg.
He has published three volumes of studies of two-winged insects called gorzalka. Recently published in English three volumes of the Swede is a bestseller in his homeland.
However, the Swede about Ignobelevskoy award was not even dreamed of.
He wanted to be a rock star, wearing leather pants, sunglasses and to acquire fans. But it is not true. And it came to pass — the IG Nobel prize.
Reward for cunning
failed to get out of the rewards and the person responsible for the oil — company Volkswagen. The German automaker was awarded the prize for ingenuity. The company’s engineers have modified software that allowed it to circumvent existing rigid requirements on the content of harmful substances in exhaust gases.
It cost the company from Wolfsburg about 16.5 billion dollars in compensation, repair, or repurchase approximately 475 thousand sold in the U.S. vehicles with two-liter diesel engines. Of course, the IG Nobel prize these losses will not be covered, but valuable recognition.
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