Lukashenko received shnobel to ban applause - BBC Russian

Alexander Lukashenko banned applause in public places

“piece de resistance” on the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony at Harvard University in Boston became Belarus.

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko has been awarded shnobel to ban public applause.

ban was introduced in 2011 after protests by the Belarusian opposition appeared innovation – the participants are not shouting slogans, but only applauded.

Another prize was awarded to the Belarusian law enforcement authorities for the arrest of the one-armed man who violated the ban.

Invalid

with one hand in the Belarus Grodno was convicted that he applauded in a public place and fined.

Ig Nobel Prize, founded by Marc Abrahams and the humor magazine “Annals of Improbable Research,” has been awarded since 1991.

In English it sounds like an Ig Nobel, which translates as “shameful” (ignoble).

It’s kind of a parody of the Nobel Prize, but is presented for real works or actions that are articulate members themselves, “first makes you laugh, and then – to think”.

and Nobel shnobel all in one

authors of the theory of dung beetles and the Milky Way clearly depict their idea on stage

Presentation shnobel held annually before the announcement of the Nobel laureates.

way, the Nobel and shnobel do not exclude each other. For example, on Thursday at a ceremony at Harvard among the guests was the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics Andre Geim. In 2010, he received it for the study of graphene.

And for 10 years before that, in 2000, the same Geim received shnobel for using magnets to levitate frogs.

This year’s Prize in Physics awarded to five scientists from Italy, Russia, Britain, France and Switzerland for the discovery, the essence of which is the following: some people are physically able to run on the surface of the pond, and if they do, and pond were on the moon.

Joint Ig Nobel Prize in biology and astronomy awarded to a group of researchers from the University of Lund, who discovered that dung beetles can find a way home, guided by the Milky Way.

heartless mouse

Mouse turns out to recover more quickly when listening to “La Traviata” by Verdi

four French and one American scientists were awarded in the field of psychology for the experiment proved that drunk people think they are superficially attractive.

In the medical field

shnobel left to the researcher from the University of Tokyo Take Masanori Niimi, who proved that the music of Verdi’s “La Traviata” several times prolongs the life of mice after a heart transplant.

American scientist Gustav Pizzo, who died in 2006, posthumously received the Ig Nobel Prize in the field of engineering for the development of electro-mechanical locking systems hijackers.

According to his method, thief falls through a special hatch, which falls into a special container. Then packaged criminal catapult to the ground, where he was waiting for the police.

In chemistry shnobel awarded to scientists from Japan and Germany for the assertion that the biochemical reaction that causes a person to cry with a bow, much more complex than previously thought.

How to sew back the penis

American and Canadian Brian Crandall and Peter Stahl were awarded in the field of archeology for the experiment carried out in a literal sense by itself. They swallowed without chewing, scalded with boiling water shrews, and then examined their stools to figure out which parts of the animal to digest and which are not.

shnobel in the category of “Theory of probability” was Dr. Bert Tolkamp of the Scottish Agricultural College for two related discoveries: “First, the longer a cow is, the more likely that it will soon rise again. And second, if the cow got up, then predict when it will fall again, it is difficult “.

and public health prize was awarded to scientists from Thailand, proposed a method of sewing amputated penises back on Siam. Their proposed technique is not suitable in cases where the amputated penis was partially eaten by a duck.