[REFERENCE: “The First Case of Homosexual Necrophilia in the Mallard Anas platyrhynchos (Aves: Anatidae)” C.W. 5295–8. Ghada A. bin Saif, Alexandru Papoiu, Liliana Banari, Francis McGlone, Shawn G. Kwatra, Yiong-Huak Chan, and Gil Yosipovitch, for trying to measure the pleasurability of scratching an itch. LITERATURE PRIZE: Ireland’s police service (An Garda Siochana), for writing and presenting more than fifty traffic tickets to the most frequent driving offender in the country — Prawo Jazdy — whose name in Polish means “Driving License”. PEACE PRIZE: Alexander Lukashenko, president of Belarus, for making it illegal to applaud in public, AND to the Belarus State Police, for arresting a one-armed man for applauding. PEACE: Keita Sato, President of Takara Co., Dr. Matsumi Suzuki, President of Japan Acoustic Lab, and Dr. Norio Kogure, Executive Director, Kogure Veterinary Hospital, for promoting peace and harmony between the species by inventing Bow-Lingual, a computer-based automatic dog-to-human language translation device. 2, pp. BIOLOGY: T. Yagyu, J. Wackermann, T. Kinoshita, T. Hirota, K. Kochi, I. Kondakor, Thomas König, and Dietrich Lehmann, from the University Hospital of Zurich, Switzerland, from Kansai Medical University in Osaka, Japan, and from Neuroscience Technology Research in Prague, Czech Republic, for measuring people’s brainwave patterns while they chewed different flavors of gum. The only exceptions came in 1991, the very first year of the ceremony, and 1994. The first nomination also featured three fictional recipients for fictional achievements. REFERENCE: “Microbial Treatment of Food-Production Waste with Thermopile Enzyme-Producing Bacterial Flora from a Giant Panda” [in Japanese], Fumiaki Taguchi, Song Guofu, Yasunori Sugai, Hiroyasu Kudo and Akira Koikeda, Journal of the Japan Society of Waste Management Experts, vol. ART: Presented jointly to Jim Knowlton, modern Renaissance man, for his classic anatomy poster “Penises of the Animal Kingdom,” and to the U.S. National Endowment for the Arts for encouraging Mr. Knowlton to extend his work in the form of a pop-up book. 20637, 2017. WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY: Paul Becher, Sebastien Lebreton, Felipe Borrero-Echeverry, Peter Witzgall. NOTE: They also offer a product based on this research The product is named “Babypod“. ECONOMICS: The Vatican, for outsourcing prayers to India. 1625-40. REFERENCE: “Chemical and Olfactory Characterization of Odorous Compounds and Their Precursors in the Parotoid Gland Secretion of the Green Tree Frog, Litoria caerulea,” Benjamin P.C. REFERENCE: “The Case of Moulay Ismael-Fact or Fancy?” Elisabeth Oberzaucher and Karl Grammer, PLOS ONE, vol. LITERATURE: The American Nudist Research Library of Kissimmee, Florida, USA, for preserving nudist history so that everyone can see it. ], PSYCHOLOGY: John Mack of Harvard Medical School and David Jacobs of Temple University, mental visionaries, for their leaping conclusion that people who believe they were kidnapped by aliens from outer space, probably were — and especially for their conclusion “the focus of the abduction is the production of children. vol. 35, 1997, pp. Rentz, Antenna: Proceedings (A) of the Royal Entomological Society London, vol. Davila’s relentless achievement inspired\ his countrymen to coin a new verb: ” davilar,” meaning, “to botch things up royally.”, MATHEMATICS: The Southern Baptist Church of Alabama, mathematical measurers of morality, for their county-by-county estimate of how many Alabama citizens will go to Hell if they don’t repent. ECONOMICS PRIZE [NEW ZEALAND, UK] — Mark Avis, Sarah Forbes, and Shelagh Ferguson, for assessing the perceived personalities of rocks, from a sales and marketing perspective. 7957, February28, 1976, pp. PEACE: Harold Hillman of the University of Surrey, England for his lovingly rendered and ultimately peaceful report “The Possible Pain Experienced During Execution by Different Methods.” [Published in Perception 1993, vol 22, pp. WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY: Stephan Bolliger. 47-82. Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments, Bank of Commerce and Credit International, Natuurhistorisch Museum Rotterdam in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, homosexual necrophilia in the mallard duck, sensational stranding of a Soviet submarine, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, University of Tennessee College of Medicine, Federal Ethics Committee on Non-Human Biotechnology, similar things can be done to an entire national economy, hear their own spoken words at a very slight delay, US Government General Accountability Office, see the face of Jesus in a piece of toast, more self-admiring, more manipulative, and more psychopathic, "Ig Nobel Prizes Go to Those Likely to Be Overlooked : Lampoon: MIT researchers create the new series of awards, named after the 'inventor of soda pop.' CHEMISTRY: Jacques Benveniste, prolific proseletizer and dedicated correspondent of “Nature,” for his persistent discovery that water, H2O, is an intelligent liquid, and for demonstrating to his satisfaction that water is able to remember events long after all trace of those events has vanished. [REFERENCE: “Gorbachev! 2646-7. WHO ATTENDED THE IG NOBEL CEREMONY: Brian Gettelfinger and Edward Cussler. WHO PARTICIPATED IN THE CEREMONY: Miranda Giacomin and Nicholas Rule. REFERENCE: “Dogs are sensitive to small variations of the Earth’s magnetic field,” Vlastimil Hart, Petra Nováková, Erich Pascal Malkemper, Sabine Begall, Vladimír Hanzal, Miloš Ježek, Tomáš Kušta, Veronika Němcová, Jana Adámková, Kateřina Benediktová, Jaroslav Červený and Hynek Burda, Frontiers in Zoology, 10:80, 27 December 27, 2013. WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY: Vlastimil Hart, Petra Nováková, Pascal Malkemper, Sabine Begall, Veronika Němcová, Hynek Burda. 4, 1979, pp. 211-8. WHO ATTENDED THE IG NOBEL CEREMONY: James Gundlach. 5964, January 22, 2010, pp. 28, no. 124, nos. Shigeru Watanabe, Mineko Ohnishi, Kaori Imai, Eiji Kawano, and Seiji Igarashi, for estimating the total saliva volume produced per day by a typical five-year-old child MobileWiki. 74-76. 7, 2010, pp. Shieh, P. Wu, and B.N. 231-5. 7, February 21, 2003, pp. Will Humans Swim Faster or Slower in Syrup? 7, no. REFERENCE: “Behavioural and electrophysiological responses of the female malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae (Diptera: Culicidae) to Limburger cheese volatiles,” Bulletin of Entomological Research, B.G.J. BIOLOGY PRIZE: Prof. Dr. Johanna E.M.H. PSYCHOLOGY: Gian Vittorio Caprara and Claudio Barbaranelli of the University of Rome, and Philip Zimbardo of Stanford University, for their discerning report “Politicians’ Uniquely Simple Personalities.”. WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY: Francis McGlone delivered an acceptance speech via recorded video. Spontaneous Knotting of an Agitated String, The Spermicidal Potency of Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola, You Bastard: A Narrative Exploration of the Experience of Indignation within Organizations, 17th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, Novel Production Method for Plant Polyphenol from Livestock Excrement Using Subcritical Water Reaction, Effects of Backward Speech and Speaker Variability in Language Discrimination by Rats, The Definite Article: Acknowledging ‘The’ in Index Entries, Harassing, Annoying, and ‘Bad Guy’ Identifying Chemicals, Bottomless Bowls: Why Visual Cues of Portion Size May Influence Intake, Sildenafil Accelerates Reentrainment of Circadian Rhythms After Advancing Light Schedules, 16th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, Dung Preference of the Dung Beetle Scarabaeus cristatus Fab (Coleoptera-Scarabaeidae) from Kuwait, device that makes annoying high-pitched noise designed to be audible to teenagers but not to adults, telephone ringtones that are audible to teenagers but probably not to their teachers, Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Research Organization, Consequences of Erudite Vernacular Utilized Irrespective of Necessity: Problems with Using Long Words Needlessly, Termination of Intractable Hiccups with Digital Rectal Massage, Fragmentation of Rods by Cascading Cracks: Why Spaghetti Does Not Break in Half, http://www.lmm.jussieu.fr/spaghetti/index.html, Ultrasonic Velocity in Cheddar Cheese as Affected by Temperature, On Human Odour, Malaria Mosquitoes, and Limburger Cheese. 4, September 1998, pp. 145-6. CHEMISTRY: Edward Cussler of the University of Minnesota and Brian Gettelfinger of the University of Minnesota and the University of Wisconsin, for conducting a careful experiment to settle the longstanding scientific question: can people swim faster in syrup or in water? Surgical Management of an Epidemic of Penile Amputations in Siam, 22rd First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, Leaning to the Left Makes the Eiffel Tower Seem Smaller: Posture-Modulated Estimation, converting old Russian ammunition into new diamonds, SpeechJammer: A System Utilizing Artificial Speech Disturbance with Delayed Auditory Feedback, Neural correlates of interspecies perspective taking in the post-mortem Atlantic Salmon: An argument for multiple comparisons correction, Neural Correlates of Interspecies Perspective Taking in the Post-Mortem Atlantic Salmon: An Argument For Multiple Comparisons Correction, Actions Needed to Evaluate the Impact of Efforts to Estimate Costs of Reports and Studies, Shape of a Ponytail and the Statistical Physics of Hair Fiber Bundles, Faces and Behinds: Chimpanzee Sex Perception, Colonic Gas Explosion During Therapeutic Colonoscopy with Electrocautery, Argon Plasma Coagulation in the Treatment of Hemorrhagic Radiation Proctitis is Efficient But Requires a Perfect, 21rd First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, No Evidence of Contagious Yawning in the Red-Footed Tortoise, Inhibitory Spillover: Increased Urination Urgency Facilitates Impulse Control in Unrelated Domains, The Effect of Acute Increase in Urge to Void on Cognitive Function in Healthy Adults, How to Procrastinate and Still Get Things Done, Beetles on the Bottle: Male Buprestids Mistake Stubbies for Females (Coleoptera), Dizziness in Discus Throwers is Related to Motion Sickness Generated While Spinning, The Attentional Demand of Automobile Driving, 20th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, a method to collect whale snot, using a remote-control helicopter, A Novel Non-Invasive Tool for Disease Surveillance of Free-Ranging Whales and Its Relevance to Conservation Programs, Rollercoaster Asthma: When Positive Emotional Stress Interferes with Dyspnea Perception, Rules for Biologically Inspired Adaptive Network Design, Preventing Winter Falls: A Randomised Controlled Trial of a Novel Intervention, Microbiological Laboratory Hazard of Bearded Men, Review of Deep Oil Spill Modeling Activity Supported by the Deep Spill JIP and Offshore Operator’s Committee. David Sims of Cass Business School. REFERENCE: “Beetles on the Bottle,” D.T. 5, September 1987, pp. REFERENCE: “Kissing Reduces Allergic Skin Wheal Responses and Plasma Neurotrophin Levels,” Hajime Kimata, Physiology and Behavior, vol. The 2001 Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded on Thursday night, October 4th, 2001 at the 11th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, at Harvard’s Sanders Theatre. 14, no. PHYSICS: D.M.R. 549–563. 1, July 1971, pp. 5, 1988, pp. MANAGEMENT PRIZE [CHINA] You can watch the video on our youTube Channel. Boston University is located in the heart of what many view as the world’s greatest university city. The prize is named after an Honorary Fellow of the College, Lord Walker of Gestingthorpe, a retired Justice of the Supreme Court and former law student at Trinity. A Psychophysical Study", "From junior to senior Pinocchio: A cross-sectional lifespan investigation of deception", "On the Reception and Detection of Pseudo-Profound Bullshit", "2017 Ig Nobel Prizes | September 18, 2017 Issue – Vol. The ceremony was webcast live. The ceremony was webcast live. 429-38. ARCHEOLOGY: Eclaireurs de France, the Protestant youth group whose name means”those who show the way,” fresh-scrubbed removers of grafitti, for erasing the ancient paintings from the walls of the Meyrieres Cave near the French village of Bruniquel. ATTENDING THE CEREMONY: Colleague Deborah Wilkes accepted the prize on behalf of Professor Perry. CHEMISTRY: Bijan Pakzad of Beverly Hills, for creating DNA Cologne and DNA PERFUME, neither of which contain deoxyribonucleic acid, and both of which come in a triple helix bottle. 1-2, February 1, 2004, pp. PHYSICS PRIZE. REFERENCE: “European System of National and Regional Accounts (ESA 2010),” Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union, 2013. 6, no. 307, no. 1, 2016, pp. 348, November 9, 1996, p. Miranda Giacomin and Nicholas Rule, for devising a method to identify narcissists by examining their eyebrows. LITERATURE PRIZE [AUSTRALIA, EL SALVADOR, UK] — Thea Blackler, Rafael Gomez, Vesna Popovic and M. Helen Thompson, for documenting that most people who use complicated products do not read the instruction manual. ECONOMICS: Jan Pablo Davila of Chile, tireless trader of financial futures and former employee of the state-owned Codelco Company, for instructing his computer to “buy” when he meant “sell,” and subsequently attempting to recoup his losses by making increasingly unprofitable trades that ultimately lost .5 percent of Chile’s gross national product. The Texarkana Gazette is the premier source for local news and sports in Texarkana and the surrounding Arklatex areas. PHYSICS PRIZE: Joseph Keller [USA], and Raymond Goldstein [USA and UK], Patrick Warren, and Robin Ball [UK], for calculating the balance of forces that shape and move the hair in a human ponytail. 253–268. [NOTE: Two days after the ceremony, Anita Eerland and Rolf Zwaan married each other, in the Netherlands.]. 477-84. REFERENCE: “A Comparison of Jump Performances of the Dog Flea, Ctenocephalides canis (Curtis, 1826) and the Cat Flea, Ctenocephalides felis felis (Bouche, 1835),” M.C. 119-20. WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY: Akira Horiuchi. Iman Farahbakhsh, for inventing a diaper-changing machine for use on human infants. Lack of Self-Face Recognition Advantage in Identical Twins, Fetal Facial Expression in Response to Intravaginal Music Emission, 26th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, Effect of Different Types of Textiles on Sexual Activity. CHEMISTRY: Theodore Gray (USA and Switzerland), for gathering many elements of the periodic table, and assembling them into the form of a four-legged periodic table table. REFERENCE: “Does Knuckle Cracking Lead to Arthritis of the Fingers?“, Donald L. Unger, Arthritis and Rheumatism, vol. PEACE PRIZE [SPAIN, COLOMBIA] — Francisco Alonso, Cristina Esteban, Andrea Serge, Maria-Luisa Ballestar, Jaime Sanmartín, Constanza Calatayud, and Beatriz Alamar, for measuring the frequency, motivation, and effects of shouting and cursing while driving an automobile. You can look it up. The 1999 Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded on Thursday night, September 30th, 1999 at the 9th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, at Harvard’s Sanders Theatre. 1, July 1998, pp. (such as: What percentage of young people wear baseball caps with the peak facing to the rear rather than to the front; What percentage of pedestrians wear sport shoes that are white rather than some other color; What percentage of swimmers swim laps in the shallow end of a pool rather than the deep end; What percentage of automobile drivers almost, but not completely, come to a stop at one particular stop-sign; What percentage of commuters carry attaché cases; What percentage of shoppers exceed the number of items permitted in a supermarket’s express checkout lane; and What percentage of students dislike the taste of Brussels sprouts.). JOINT PRIZE IN BIOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY: Marie Dacke [SWEDEN, AUSTRALIA], Emily Baird [SWEDEN, AUSTRALIA, GERMANY], Marcus Byrne [SOUTH AFRICA, UK], Clarke Scholtz [SOUTH AFRICA], and Eric J. REFERENCE: “Swearing as a Response to Pain,” Richard Stephens, John Atkins, and Andrew Kingston, Neuroreport, vol. The 2003 Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded on Thursday night, September NNth, 2003 at the 13th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, at Harvard’s Sanders Theatre. REFERENCE: “A Study on the Coffee Spilling Phenomena in the Low Impulse Regime,” Jiwon Han, Achievements in the Life Sciences, vol. REFERENCE: “Sword Swallowing and Its Side Effects,” Brian Witcombeand Dan Meyer, British Medical Journal, December 23, 2006, vol. The ceremony was webcast live. ECONOMICS: Joel Slemrod, of the University of Michigan Business School, and Wojciech Kopczuk, of University of British Columbia [and who has since moved to Columbia University], for their conclusion that people find a way to postpone their deaths if that would qualify them for a lower rate on the inheritance tax. PUBLIC HEALTH PRIZE: Kasian Bhanganada, Tu Chayavatana, Chumporn Pongnumkul, Anunt Tonmukayakul, Piyasakol Sakolsatayadorn, Krit Komaratal, and Henry Wilde, for the medical techniques described in their report “Surgical Management of an Epidemic of Penile Amputations in Siam” — techniques which they recommend, except in cases where the amputated penis had been partially eaten by a duck. 1, January 2011, pp. 60, no. 5, Sept/Oct 2003.] REFERENCE: “Aesthetic value of paintings affects pain thresholds,” Marina de Tommaso, Michele Sardaro, and Paolo Livrea, Consciousness and Cognition, vol. Also published as Reviews on Advanced Materials Science, vol. 6, November 2002, pp. REFERENCE: “Is That Me or My Twin? a Universal Word? PHYSICS: John Bockris of Texas A&M University, for his wide-ranging achievements in cold fusion, in the transmutation of base elements into gold, and in the electrochemical incineration of domestic rubbish. Lack of Self-Face Recognition Advantage in Identical Twins", "Fetal facial expression in response to intravaginal music emission", "Validation of a Functional Pyelocalyceal Renal Model for the Evaluation of Renal Calculi Passage While Riding a Roller Coaster", "Spontaneous cross-species imitation in interactions between chimpanzees and zoo visitors", "Life Is Too Short to RTFM: How Users Relate to Documentation and Excess Features in Consumer Products", "Assessing the calorific significance of episodes of human cannibalism in the Palaeolithic", "Righting a wrong: Retaliation on a voodoo doll symbolizing an abusive supervisor restores justice", "Announcing the 2019 Ig Nobel Prize Winners", "Is Teaching Simple Surgical Skills Using an Operant Learning Program More Effective Than Teaching by Demonstration", "In-Vivo Biomagnetic Characterisation of the American Cockroach", "Infant washer and diaper-changer apparatus and method", "The pleasurability of scratching an itch: a psychophysical and topographical assessment", "Inhibiting and facilitating conditions of the human smile: A nonobtrusive test of the facial feedback hypothesis", "From Data to Truth in Psychological Science. The 2017 Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded on Thursday night, September 14, 2017 at the 27th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, at Harvard’s Sanders Theatre. The 2000 Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded on Thursday night, October 5th, 2000 at the 10th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, at Harvard’s Sanders Theatre. ], MEDICINE: F. Kanda, E. Yagi, M. Fukuda, K. Nakajima, T. Ohta and O. Nakata of the Shisedo Research Center in Yokohama, for their pioneering research study “Elucidation of Chemical Compounds Responsible for Foot Malodour,” especially for their conclusion that people who think they have foot odor do, and those who don’t, don’t. "Transatlantic Transfer of Digitized Antigen Signal by Telephone Link". WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY: Jaroslava Durdiaková and Peter Celec will be at the ceremony. 389, no. 7, 2004, pp. 27, no. 11, 1984, pp. Dalton and T. Parnell, European Journal of Physics, 1984, pp. REFERENCE: the series “Reports of the Okamura Fossil Laboratory,” published by the Okamura Fossil Laboratory in Nagoya, Japan during the 1970’s and 1980’s. ATTENDING THE CEREMONY: Alberto Minetti and Yuri Ivanenko. PEACE: Prime Minister Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee of India and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif of Pakistan, for their aggressively peaceful explosions of atomic bombs. ATTENDING THE CEREMONY: Frans de Waal and Jennifer Pokorny. ECONOMICS PRIZE: The executives and directors of Goldman Sachs, AIG, Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch, and Magnetar for creating and promoting new ways to invest money — ways that maximize financial gain and minimize financial risk for the world economy, or for a portion thereof. 5, May 2011, pp. via wikigb.com Feed https://ift.tt/3oXgwRG. 3, March 2000, pp. “The Ig Nobel awards are arguably the highlight of the scientific calendar.” — Nature. 307, no. REFERENCE: “Exploring Stock Managers’ Perceptions of the Human-Animal Relationship on Dairy Farms and an Association with Milk Production,” Catherine Bertenshaw [Douglas] and Peter Rowlinson, Anthrozoos, vol. 3, February 9, 2015, pp. ECONOMICS PRIZE [ITALY]: ISTAT — the Italian government’s National Institute of Statistics, for proudly taking the lead in fulfilling the European Union mandate for each country to increase the official size of its national economy by including revenues from prostitution, illegal drug sales, smuggling, and all other unlawful financial transactions between willing participants. 165-78.]. [Click here for additional details. 198, no. 4, 2011. pp. 1, no. PERCEPTION PRIZE [JAPAN] — Atsuki Higashiyama and Kohei Adachi, for investigating whether things look different when you bend over and view them between your legs. The 1997 Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded at the 7th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, at Harvard’s Sanders Theatre. 22-5. 1, 1990, pp. Roger Mieusset and Bourras Bengoudifa, for measuring scrotal temperature asymmetry in naked and clothed postmen in France. PUBLIC HEALTH: Chittaranjan Andrade and B.S. 8, March 20, 1999, p. [The book is 16432-7. Massimiliano Zampini of the University of Trento, Italy and Charles Spence of Oxford University, UK, for electronically modifying the sound of a potato chip to make the person chewing the chip believe it to be crisper and fresher than it really is. 10, September 2, 1993, pp. NUTRITION PRIZE [ZIMBABWE, TANZANIA, UK] — James Cole, for calculating that the caloric intake from a human-cannibalism diet is significantly lower than the caloric intake from most other traditional meat diets. [NOTE: Thomas Thwaites’s goat suit was kindly released for Ig Nobel purposes from the exhibition ‘Platform – Body/Space’ at Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam, and will be back on display at the museum from 4 October 2016 till 8 January 2017.]. REFERENCE: “Pouring Flows With Separation,” Jean-Marc Vanden-Broeck and Joseph B. Keller, Physics of Fluids A: Fluid Dynamics, vol. “Geometry and Physics of Wrinkling,” E. Cerda and L. Mahadevan, Physical Review Letters, fol. [REFERENCE: “The Rule, Journal of Personality, vol. The ceremony was webcast live. 60, 2006, pp. 825-31. Commenting on the 2006 awards, Marc Abrahams, editor of Annals of Improbable Research and co-sponsor of the awards, said that "[t]he prizes are intended to celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative, and spur people's interest in science, medicine, and technology". Brown, Kaitlin Pugliese, Tivoli Olsen, Mariam Iftikhar, Gregory Weiss [USA], for inventing a chemical recipe to partially un-boil an egg. 45, 2006, pp. 160, 2015, pp. ORNITHOLOGY: Ivan R. Schwab, of the University of California Davis, and the late Philip R.A. May of the University of California Los Angeles, for exploring and explaining why woodpeckers don’t get headaches. REFERENCE: “The social life of donuts: Commodity and community in postwar Canada,” Steven Penfold, York University Ph.D. thesis, 2002. 477-481.]. SAFETY ENGINEERING PRIZE: The late Gustano Pizzo [USA], for inventing an electro-mechanical system to trap airplane hijackers — the system drops a hijacker through trap doors, seals him into a package, then drops the encapsulated hijacker through the airplane’s specially-installed bomb bay doors, whence he parachutes to earth, where police, having been alerted by radio, await his arrival. 239-41. WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY: Marie-Christine Cadiergues and Christel Joubert, unable to attend the ceremony, were presented with the prize at a special ceremony, later in the month, at the Genoa Science Festival. Decreased level of psychobiological factor novelty seeking and lower intelligence in men latently infected with the protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondii Dopamine, a missing link between schizophrenia and toxoplasmosis? ATTENDING THE THE CEREMONY: Johan Pettersson. PEACE PRIZE [INDIA, PAKISTAN] 1282. SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: We are now, in 2012, correcting an error we made in the year 1999, when we failed to include one winner’s name. PUBLISHED IN: Applied Ergonomics, vol. Some days after the ceremony came news that he is alive and well. NOTE: This the SECOND Ig Nobel Prize awarded to Patricia Yang and David Hu. Donald TrumpDonald John Trump is the 45th and current president of the United States. REFERENCE: “SpeechJammer: A System Utilizing Artificial Speech Disturbance with Delayed Auditory Feedback“, Kazutaka Kurihara, Koji Tsukada, arxiv.org/abs/1202.6106. CHEMISTRY PRIZE: Makoto Imai, Naoki Urushihata, Hideki Tanemura, Yukinobu Tajima, Hideaki Goto, Koichiro Mizoguchi and Junichi Murakami of JAPAN, for determining the ideal density of airborne wasabi (pungent horseradish) to awaken sleeping people in case of a fire or other emergency, and for applying this knowledge to invent the wasabi alarm. Those four apocryphal achievements are not included in the list on this page. Deepak Chopra of The Chopra Center for Well Being, La Jolla, California, for his unique interpretation of quantum physics as it applies to life, liberty, and the pursuit of economic happiness. Knols and R. De Jong, Parasitology Today, yd. via wikigb.com Feed https://ift.tt/3oXgwRG. 13, no. REFERENCES: (published after winning the prize): “Models to Evaluate the Role of Stress in Periodontal Disease,” Robert J. Genco, et al., Annals of Periodontology, vol. 151-4. 69, no. 79-80. ATTENDING THE CEREMONY: Karl Halvor Teigen. REFERENCE: “Rollercoaster Asthma: When Positive Emotional Stress Interferes with Dyspnea Perception,” Simon Rietveld and Ilja van Beest, Behaviour Research and Therapy, vol. 18, no. PUBLISHED IN: “Navigation-Related Structural Change In the Hippocampi of Taxi Drivers,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. The ceremony took place on 30 September 2010. The ceremony took place on 30 September 2004. REFERENCE: “Pacific and Atlantic Herring Produce Burst Pulse Sounds,” Ben Wilson, Robert S. Batty and Lawrence M. Dill, Biology Letters, vol. LITERATURE PRIZE: Glenda Browne of Blaxland, Blue Mountains, Australia, for her study of the word “the” — and of the many ways it causes problems for anyone who tries to put things into alphabetical order. Chiang (all of Taiwan) for discovering that it is not. WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY: Tomas Persson, Gabriela-Alina Sauciuc. The Salesman of the Century : Inventing, Marketing. 21-26.]. Sinai Hospital in Toronto and Kerry Siminoski of the University of Alberta for their carefully measured report, “The Relationships Among Height, Penile Length, and Foot Size.”. PSYCHOLOGY: Shigeru Watanabe, Junko Sakamoto, and Masumi Wakita, of Keio University, for their success in training pigeons to discriminate between the paintings of Picasso and those of Monet. 85, 2012. REFERENCE: “Preventing Winter Falls: A Randomised Controlled Trial of a Novel Intervention,” Lianne Parkin, Sheila Williams, and Patricia Priest, New Zealand Medical Journal. 283-284. and Selling on TV: How I Did It and How You Can Too! 373-385. “Relationship of Stress, Distress, and Inadequate Coping Behaviors to Periodontal Disease,” Robert J. Genco, et al., Journal of Periodontology, vol. 77-80. WHO ATTENDED THE IG NOBEL PRIZE CEREMONY: Lynn Halpern and Randolph Blake, MATHEMATICS: Nic Svenson and Piers Barnes of the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Research Organization, for calculating the number of photographs you must take to (almost) ensure that nobody in a group photo will have their eyes closed. 166, no. REFERENCE: “The Significance of Mr. Richard Buckley’s Exploding Trousers: Reflections on an Aspect of Technological Change in New Zealand Dairy-Farming between the World Wars,” James Watson, Agricultural History, vol. BIOLOGY: C.W. 102002, October 2019. 376-382. 1375-89. WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY: Gordon Pennycook, Nathaniel Barr, Derek Koehler, and Jonathan Fugelsang. 138-42. ", "Walking Like Dinosaurs: Chickens with Artificial Tails Provide Clues about Non-Avian Theropod Locomotion", "Pain over speed bumps in diagnosis of acute appendicitis: diagnostic accuracy study", "Honey bee sting pain index by body location", "An Unexpected Advantage of Whiteness in Horses: The Most Horsefly-Proof Horse Has a Depolarizing White Coat", "Ecological Traps for Dragonflies in a Cemetery: The Attraction of Sympetrum species (Odonata: Libellulidae) by Horizontally Polarizing Black Grave-Stones", "Itch Relief by Mirror Scratching. Hong’s daughter Wan Hong, LITERATURE PRIZE. Pantheon Books, 2015, ISBN 978-1101870150. WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY: Fredrik Sjöberg. 899–906. 63, 2003, pp. REFERENCE: “Argon Plasma Coagulation in the Treatment of Hemorrhagic Radiation Proctitis is Efficient But Requires a Perfect Colonic Cleansing to Be Safe,” E. Ben-Soussan, M. Antonietti, G. Savoye, S. Herve, P. Ducrotté, and E. Lerebours, European Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, vol.
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