Briefs for rats and man-goat: who and for what was awarded the IG Nobel prize – RIA Novosti

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MOSCOW, September 23 — RIA Novosti. Harvard University presented the “honorary” IG Nobel prize, is a humorous equivalent of the Nobel prize. It highlights the scientists who are doing unusual and bizarre research. Briefs for rats and dentures-hooves: RIA Novosti learned what achievements have been awarded this year.

Fans of wise quotes

the peace Prize went to American psychologists for the article About the perception and recognition pseudomurein turtles”. They proved that social media users who like to publish on the pages of “profound” quotes on the background of beautiful pictures, have a low level of intelligence. Scientists have also determined that these people are more likely to believe in conspiracy theories and the paranormal.

Scratching at a mirror

Scientist Thomas Twaites at the ceremony of awarding the IG Nobel prize

the biology Prize went to two researchers who reincarnated in animals. Charles foster was offered the role of a badger, foxes, otters and deer and wrote about this experience a book. So, being a “badger”, the researcher dug a hole and eat worms, and in the role of “Fox” slept in the gardens. Thomas Thwaites did about the same thing, but used in experiment technology. Researcher attached to the feet and hand prostheses in order to walk like quadrupeds. He spent three days in the company of goats and described his feelings in the book.

Lord of the flies

the Prize for literature went to Sweden — it received the writer Fredrik sjöberg for his book “the Trap Malta, or happiness to live in a captivity of unusual passion, about flies and the whims of fate.” In her sjöberg reported on the fate entomologist rené Malta, which went down in history as the inventor of the traps for the flies. The book, by the way, received a lot of positive feedback.

Briefs as a method of contraception

a Scientist from Egypt Ahmed Shafik received the award for a study of the influence of underpants from different materials on reproductive function. As a test, the researcher used rats. Animals wearing underwear of one hundred percent polyester, cotton, wool and mixed fabrics. During the experiment it became clear that the underwear made of polyester reduces sexual activity of rodents.

the Subtleties of perception

Susanne Akesson from Sweden at the ceremony of awarding the IG Nobel prize

the Prize in physics was awarded to scientists from Sweden, Hungary, Switzerland and Spain, who proved that flies do not bite white horses. Animals reflect unpolarized light, making them invisible to insects.

Stone also a person

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