Ig Nobel laureates delivered with laughter and thoughts

2019/09/13 Galarraga Aiestaran, Ana - Elhuyar Zientzia Iturria: Elhuyar aldizkaria

• Sariak

The magazine Annals of Improbable Research organizes the Nobel Prizes or Nobel Landowners. They have been distributed since 1991 at Harvard University, with a total of ten. Medicine has been announced this year in the first place. Silvano Gallus has been the winner for researching the influence of pizza to protect it from cancer.

Karen Pryor and Theresa McKeon have been awarded the Medical Education Award without leaving the medical field for applying an animal training technique in the training of surgeons.

Biology, on the other hand, has been won by an international team of researchers for demonstrating a different behavior of magnetized dead and living cockroaches.

And did you know that the scrotum of the French postmen does not have a homogeneous temperature? That's why two researchers from Paul Sabatier University have won the Anatomy Award. According to the study, the left side is warmer.

On the other hand, Japanese researchers have won chemistry for measuring the amount of saliva generated by a five-year-old.

Engineering can be especially interesting for the parents of young children: it has been given to the inventor of a diaper changing and automatic cleaning machine, Iman Farahbakhsh.

The economic has to do with health, since paper money has been handed over to those who have investigated their ability to contaminate bacteria. Apparently, the most dangerous is the Romanian neck, probably due to its components.

Peace has been won by an international team of researchers for measuring the pleasure of polishing when it has been chopped.

Fritz Strack has been the winner of psychology for demonstrating that keeping a pencil in the horizontal mouth generates happiness and canceling it twenty years later. The jury has valued the honesty of the researcher when deciding his delivery.

Finally, a large team of researchers has imposed themselves on Physics for showing why marsupial wombat excrements are quadricular. It should be noted that two of the members of this team also won the Ig Nobel in Physics in 2015. They then calculated that all mammals need an average of 21 seconds to empty the bladder.