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Last nighttime , scientists from around the earth gathered at Harvard ’s iconic Sanders Theatre for the “ 24rd First Annual ” Ig Nobel Awards , the wondrously peculiar annual awards ceremony that recognize those achievements that first make the great unwashed express mirth , and then make them intend .
The Ig Nobels are the brainchild ofMarc Abrams , and are perhaps the only ceremonial proceedings on Earth where you could take heed to genuine Nobel laureates partake in an operatic ode tocoffee ’s effects on the human sphincter . To quote Amanda Palmer , the Igs are “ like the weirdest f - ing thing that you ’ll ever go to … it ’s a collection of , like , factual Nobel Prize winners pay away prizes to material scientists for doing f’d - up things … it ’s awful . ”
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The theme of this year ’s ceremony – which you could view in its totality above – was food , which them was commemorated with the prime minister of “ What ’s Eating You ” , a miniskirt - opera about people who halt use up solid food , and rather sustain themselves exclusively with pills .
Here is the full list of this yr ’s achiever :
The 2014 Ig Nobel Prize Winners
PHYSICS PRIZE [ JAPAN ] : Kiyoshi Mabuchi , Kensei Tanaka , Daichi Uchijima and Rina Sakai , for evaluate the amount of friction between a horseshoe and a banana skin , and between a banana peel and the floor , when a mortal abuse on a banana tree skin that ’s on the story .
REFERENCE : “ Frictional Coefficient under Banana Skin , ” Kiyoshi Mabuchi , Kensei Tanaka , Daichi Uchijima and Rina Sakai , Tribology Online 7 , no . 3 , 2012 , pp . 147 - 151 .
WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY : Kiyoshi Mabuchi
NEUROSCIENCE PRIZE [ CHINA , CANADA ] : Jiangang Liu , Jun Li , Lu Feng , Ling Li , Jie Tian , and Kang Lee , for trying to empathize what happens in the brains of people who see the cheek of Jesus in a piece of pledge .
REFERENCE : “ Seeing Jesus in Toast : Neural and Behavioral Correlates of Face Pareidolia , ” Jiangang Liu , Jun Li , Lu Feng , Ling Li , Jie Tian , Kang Lee , Cortex , vol . 53 , April 2014 , Pages 60–77 . The author are at School of Computer and Information Technology , Beijing Jiaotong University , Xidian University , the Institute of Automation Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing , China , and the University of Toronto , Canada .
PSYCHOLOGY PRIZE [ AUSTRALIA , UK , USA ] : Peter K. Jonason , Amy Jones , and Minna Lyons , for amassing grounds that people who habitually stay up latterly are , on average , more ego - admire , more manipulative , and more psychopathologic than mass who habitually arise early in the morning .
REFERENCE : “ animal of the Night : Chronotypes and the Dark Triad Traits , ” Peter K. Jonason , Amy Jones , and Minna Lyons , Personality and Individual Differences , vol . 55 , no . 5 , 2013 , pp . 538 - 541 .
PUBLIC HEALTH PRIZE [ CZECH REPUBLIC , JAPAN , USA , INDIA ] : Jaroslav Flegr , Jan Havlíček and Jitka Hanušova - Lindova , and to David Hanauer , Naren Ramakrishnan , Lisa Seyfried , for investigating whether it is mentally risky for a human being to own a cat .
REFERENCE : “ Changes in personality profile of young women with latent toxoplasmosis , ” Jaroslav Flegr and Jan Havlicek , Folia Parasitologica , vol . 46 , 1999 , pp . 22 - 28 .
reference book : “ Decreased level of psychobiological component novelty seeking and lower tidings in humankind latently infect with the protozoon parasite Toxoplasma gondii Dopamine , a missing link between schizophrenia and toxoplasmosis ? ” Jaroslav Flegr , Marek Preiss , Jiřı́ Klose , Jan Havlı́ček , Martina Vitáková , and Petr Kodym , Biological Psychology , vol . 63 , 2003 , pp . 253–268 .
computer address : “ key the Relationship between Cat Bites and Human Depression Using Data from an Electronic Health Record , ” David Hanauer , Naren Ramakrishnan , Lisa Seyfried , PLoS ONE , vol . 8 , no . 8 , 2013 , e70585 .
BIOLOGY PRIZE [ CZECH REPUBLIC , GERMANY , ZAMBIA ] : Vlastimil Hart , Petra Nováková , Erich Pascal Malkemper , Sabine Begall , Vladimír Hanzal , Miloš Ježek , Tomáš Kušta , Veronika Němcová , Jana Adámková , Kateřina Benediktová , Jaroslav Červený and Hynek Burda , for carefully documenting that when dog defecate and urinate , they prefer to align their body axis of rotation with Earth ’s magnetic north - south geomagnetic field melodic phrase .
REFERENCE : “ Dogs are sensitive to small variations of the Earth ’s magnetic athletic field , ” Vlastimil Hart , Petra Nováková , Erich Pascal Malkemper , Sabine Begall , Vladimír Hanzal , Miloš Ježek , Tomáš Kušta , Veronika Němcová , Jana Adámková , Kateřina Benediktová , Jaroslav Červený and Hynek Burda , Frontiers in Zoology , 10:80 , 27 December 27 , 2013 .
ART PRIZE [ ITALY ] : Marina de Tommaso , Michele Sardaro , and Paolo Livrea , for measuring the relative pain hoi polloi suffer while looking at an ugly painting , rather than a pretty painting , while being shot [ in the hand ] by a powerful optical maser beam .
REFERENCE : “ esthetic economic value of paintings affects botheration thresholds , ” Marina de Tommaso , Michele Sardaro , and Paolo Livrea , Consciousness and Cognition , vol . 17 , no . 4 , 2008 , pp . 1152 - 1162 .
REFERENCE : “ cambium il Sistema europeo dei conti nazionali e regionali – Sec2010 “ , ISTAT , 2014 .
REFERENCE : “ European System of National and Regional Accounts ( ESA 2010 ) , ” Luxembourg : Publications Office of the European Union , 2013 .
MEDICINE PRIZE [ USA , INDIA ] : Ian Humphreys , Sonal Saraiya , Walter Belenky and James Dworkin , for treat “ ungovernable ” nosebleeds , using the method of nasal - pack - with - strips - of - cure - pork .
point of reference : “ Nasal Packing With Strips of Cured Pork as Treatment for Uncontrollable Epistaxis in a Patient with Glanzmann Thrombasthenia , ” Ian Humphreys , Sonal Saraiya , Walter Belenky and James Dworkin , Annals of Otology , Rhinology and Laryngology , vol . 120 , no . 11 , November 2011 , pp . 732 - 36 .
ARCTIC SCIENCE PRIZE [ NORWAY , GERMANY ] : Eigil Reimers and Sindre Eftestøl , for testing how reindeer oppose to consider human race who are disguised as icy bears .
REFERENCE : “ Response Behaviors of Svalbard Reindeer towards Humans and Humans Disguised as Polar Bears on Edgeøya , ” Eigil Reimers and Sindre Eftestøl , Arctic , Antarctic , and Alpine Research , vol . 44 , no . 4 , 2012 , pp . 483 - 9 .
NUTRITION PRIZE [ SPAIN ] : Raquel Rubio , Anna Jofré , Belén Martín , Teresa Aymerich , and Margarita Garriga , for their subject field titled “ Characterization of Lactic Acid Bacteria isolate from Infant Faeces as Potential Probiotic Starter Cultures for Fermented Sausages . ”
source : “ Characterization of Lactic Acid Bacteria Isolated from Infant Faeces as Potential Probiotic Starter Cultures for Fermented Sausages , ” Raquel Rubio , Anna Jofré , Belén Martín , Teresa Aymerich , Margarita Garriga , Food Microbiology , vol . 38 , 2014 , pp . 303 - 311 .
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