Image copyright PA Where hardest bite bee, chicken-tyrannosaurus and 21 seconds to commit the act of urination – all the latest research, received the Ig Nobel prize.
At Harvard University in the United States has passed the next – already 25th – award ceremony for the prize – a playful analogue of the Nobel Prize. In English it is called Ig Nobel, which translates as “shameful” – ignoble.
The award is given for the curious discoveries in the field of science, technology and often funny exploration, which have no obvious practical application.
For example, I wonder if you know that everything is more or less large mammals spend almost the same amount of time to perform the act of urination?
Get Prize in Physics graduate from the Technological Institute of the US state of Georgia, using high-speed shooting, found that almost all mammals, the body weight of more than 3 kg on average takes 21 seconds (plus or minus 13 seconds).
The head of the research team, Patricia Young in an interview with BBC BBC explained that all large mammals nearly identical system urination and they created an exemplary universal model, with which, and conducted research.
Where painful?
Another no less entertaining study was the work of Michael Smith from Cornell University, who found out which areas of the body most painfully react to a bee sting.
To do this, he personally put the bees into different parts of your body: the head, on the toes on a hand on the upper lip and the nostrils on even on the penis. The last three parts of the body, and respond the most painful way.
Also on the list of winners: the chemical conversion of a boiled egg to its original raw state (Prize in Chemistry) and evidence that interjection “?, and used to ask again interlocutor, in almost all languages of the world.
The prize in medicine was given to researchers from Britain, which proved that appendicitis can be diagnosed by the degree of pain that a patient experiences when transporting his car moved through “lying police “.
” Once we noticed that in the hospital, around which a lot of “speed bumps, especially complained about those patients who subsequently diagnosed with appendicitis,” – says a teacher at Oxford University Dr. Helen Ashdown .
As a result, out of 100 patients 33 talked about the features of acute pain during passage through “speed bumps”, which formed the basis of the study. Dr. Ashdown said that was terribly surprised when the message about this half-joking study published serious medical journal British Medical Journal.
How went the dinosaurs?
Ig Nobel prize in biology was Dr. Rodrigo Vazquez of the University of Chile for work that proves that if the chicken on the back to attach a small counterweight, as an artificial long tail, it will move in the same way as the tyrannosaur.
” Chicken walking a little squat and the steps he has become a little more because of the displacement of the center of gravity. And he has just crane your neck to balance the tail. Of course, we have no way to verify how to move the dinosaurs, but we have the opportunity – chicken with a counterweight, “- says the researcher.
Ig Nobel Prize has been awarded since 1991 and, according to The organizers must identify the advances in science, which initially cause a smile, but then make you think.
Among the recipients was once and Russian scientists – in 2000 physicist Andre Geim received her study on the use of magnets to levitate frogs .
This year, the prize was awarded to researchers from six countries.
How to Write journalists scientific humor magazine Annals of Improbable Research, the award – it was just a celebration of useless research.
The founder of this award, Mark Abrams concluded the awards ceremony with the words: “If you have not won the Ig Nobel Prize, or even better – to win it today – then the next year you can achieve even greater success”!
Other award this year:
Management: (Gennaro Bernile, Singapore Management University) study that CEOs tend to be risk-taking, if a child without serious consequences for himself survived a natural disaster – earthquake, fire, tsunami or volcanic eruption.
Economy: Police capital of Thailand asked to pay extra money if they refused bribes.
Medicine: (Hajime Kimata, Japan, and Yaroslav Durdyakova, Slovakia) studies the impact of kissing and other intimate contacts between people to reduce the risk of allergy.
Mathematics: (Elizabeth Oberzauker and Karl Grammer, Austria): calculation as lived in the XVII century, the Sultan of Morocco Moulay Ismail Ibn Sheriff, called bloodthirsty, managed to become the father of 888 children.
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