![]() ![]() ![]() Some People Are More Susceptible to “Pseudo-Profound Bullshit” The conclusion? Don’t trust a damned thing anyone between the ages of 18 and 29 says. The Ig Nobel prize for Psychology went to Evelyne Debey, Maarten De Schryver, Gordon Logan, Kristina Suchotzki, and Bruno Verschuere for, as the Ig Nobels put it “asking a thousand liars how often they lie, and for deciding whether to believe those answers.” More specifically, they asked 1,005 people, ranging from 6 to 77 years old, to lie to them in an attempt to see what age group was the best at it. When they itched the opposite arm while looking in a mirror, they felt some relief. Together, these researchers injected 26 volunteers in the arm with itch-inducing chemical histamine. The Ig Nobel prize for Medicine was awarded to Christoph Helmchen, Carina Palzer, Thomas Monte, Silke Anders, and Andreas Sprenger. Improbable Research You Can Scratch an Itch on Your Left Side By Looking in a Mirror and Scratching Your Right Side There was an opera about what a leap second is, because of course there was. The host sarcastically said Volkswagen won the prize for “solving the problem of excessive automobile pollution emissions by automatically, electromechanically producing fewer emissions whenever the cars are being tested.” The Ig Nobel prize for Chemistry wasn’t so much an actual award as it was a sick burn directed at the German car company for its infamous emissions scandal. “You can also either have stripes like a zebra or you can dress like myself in a dotted coat,” she said. Åkesson, who accepted the award, added that there were other patterns that were less appealing to flies that could help you avoid being bitten. The stronger the light reflected from their coats, the less attracted flies were to the equines. The Ig Nobel prize for Physics went to Gábor Horváth, Miklós Blahó, György Kriska, Ramón Hegedüs, Balázs Gerics, R��obert Farkas, Susanne Åkesson, Péter Malik, and Hansruedi Wildermuth, for finding that horseflies weren’t as attracted to white horses as they were to black beauties. White Horses Are the Most Horsefly-Proof Horses A hunk of obsidian is glamorous and contemporary, while pumice projects independence, for instance. The Ig Nobel prize for Economics went to Mark Avis, Sarah Gorbes, and Shelagh Ferguson for finding that people project different personality traits onto different types of rocks, and this can be useful from a sales and marketing perspective. We Think Rocks Have Different Personalities and Personal #Brands He dressed 75 rats in polyester pantsuits, and, honestly, this study raises far more questions than it answers. ![]() The late Ahmed Shafik of Egypt won the Reproduction Prize for his study that measured the effects of wearing polyester versus cotton or wool trousers on the sex life of rats. Rats Who Wear Polyester Pants Don’t Get Laid as Much ![]() Here, then, are your 2016 Ig Nobel prize winners. It’s complicated.)īut the big draw of the show, which was held at Harvard University’s Sanders Theatre, were the awards. (Short answer: It’s a second that’s occasionally added on to the super-precise atomic time that the world runs on to make sure it doesn’t drift too far away from the time of day based on Earth’s rotation around the sun. There were demonstrations, and a three-part opera about what, exactly, a “leap second” is. The theme of 2016’s ceremony, which featured a bunch of scientists having an infectiously nerdy good time, was time. The 26th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony took place on Thursday night, and as always, the goofy award show recognized some of the silliest science around - or as they put it, research that makes “people LAUGH, and then THINK.” ![]()
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