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The Ig Nobel Prizes make people laugh, and then make them think. Included in this new edition are: There are six new issues every year. Wat is de invloed van hevige kou op nat ondergoed? Waarom geven kippen voorkeur aan mooie mensen? En hoe moet je handelen als je… Meer. This is the Special… Meer. Takes a humorous look at science and research, discussing studies involving the mickymouse gene, the effects of peanut butter on… Meer.
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Chiang all of Taiwan for discovering that it is not. Hill, and Deborah J. Anderson, New England Journal of Medicine, , vol. Chiang, Human Toxicology, vol. David Sims of Cass Business School. London, UK, for his lovingly written study "You Bastard: Mahadevan, Physical Review Letters, fol. Passini, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. Mayu Yamamoto of the International Medical Center of Japan, for developing a way to extract vanillin -- vanilla fragrance and flavoring -- from cow dung.
Toscanini's Ice Cream , the finest ice cream shop in Cambridge, Massachusetts, created a new ice cream flavor in honor of Mayu Yamamoto, and introduced it at the Ig Nobel ceremony. The flavor is called "Yum-a-Moto Vanilla Twist. Juan Manuel Toro , Josep B. Animal Behavior Processes, vol. The winners could not travel to the ceremony, so they instead delivered their acceptance speech via recorded video. Glenda Browne of Blaxland, Blue Mountains, Australia, for her study of the word "the" -- and of the many ways it causes problems for anyone who tries to put things into alphabetical order.
Brian Wansink of Cornell University, for exploring the seemingly boundless appetites of human beings, by feeding them with a self-refilling, bottomless bowl of soup. Painter and Jill North, Obesity Research, vol. Kuo Cheng Hsieh, of Taichung, Taiwan, for patenting a device, in the year , that catches bank robbers by dropping a net over them.
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Golombek, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. May of the University of California Los Angeles, for exploring and explaining why woodpeckers don't get headaches. Howard Stapleton of Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, for inventing an electromechanical teenager repellant -- a device that makes annoying high-pitched noise designed to be audible to teenagers but not to adults ; and for later using that same technology to make telephone ringtones that are audible to teenagers but probably not to their teachers.
Howard Stapleton planned to attend, but his plans were interrupted by a family medical situation. Nic Svenson and Piers Barnes of the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Research Organization , for calculating the number of photographs you must take to almost ensure that nobody in a group photo will have their eyes closed. Problems with Using Long Words Needlessly.
Oppenheimer, Applied Cognitive Psychology, vol. The winners delivered their acceptance speech via video recording. Knols, The Lancet, vol. De Jong, Parasitology Today, yd. De Jong and B. Richard Buckley's Exploding Trousers: John Mainstone and the late Thomas Parnell of the University of Queensland, Australia, for patiently conducting an experiment that began in the year -- in which a glob of congealed black tar has been slowly, slowly dripping through a funnel, at a rate of approximately one drop every nine years.
Parnell, European Journal of Physics, , pp. Miller of Oak Grove, Missouri, for inventing Neuticles -- artificial replacement testicles for dogs, which are available in three sizes, and three degrees of firmness. The winner was unable to travel, and delivered his acceptance speech via video. The Internet entrepreneurs of Nigeria, for creating and then using e-mail to distribute a bold series of short stories , thus introducing millions of readers to a cast of rich characters -- General Sani Abacha, Mrs.
A Reevaluation of Responses to Moving Objects. Selective Responses to Approaching Objects," F. Simmons, Journal of Neurophysiology, vol. Gauri Nanda of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for inventing an alarm clock that runs away and hides, repeatedly , thus ensuring that people DO get out of bed, and thus theoretically adding many productive hours to the workday.
Edward Cussler of the University of Minnesota and Brian Gettelfinger of the University of Minnesota and the University of Wisconsin, for conducting a careful experiment to settle the longstanding scientific question: Tyler, and Brian D. Williams, Applied Herpetology, vol. Yoshiro Nakamats of Tokyo, Japan, for photographing and retrospectively analyzing every meal he has consumed during a period of 34 years and counting.
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Polar Biology , vol. The winners were unable to attend the ceremony because they could not obtain United States visas to visit the United States. Meyer-Rochow sent an acceptance speech via video. Social Forces , vol. Ramesh Balasubramaniam of the University of Ottawa, and Michael Turvey of the University of Connecticut and Haskins Laboratory, for exploring and explaining the dynamics of hula-hooping.
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Jillian Clarke of the Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences , and then Howard University, for investigating the scientific validity of the Five-Second Rule about whether it's safe to eat food that's been dropped on the floor. The Coca-Cola Company of Great Britain , for using advanced technology to convert ordinary tap water into Dasani, a transparent form of water, which for precautionary reasons has been made unavailable to consumers. Smith and his father, the late Frank J. Daniel Simons of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Christopher Chabris of Harvard University, for demonstrating that when people pay close attention to something, it's all too easy to overlook anything else -- even a woman in a gorilla suit.
Simons and Christopher F. The Vatican , for outsourcing prayers to India. Daisuke Inoue of Hyogo, Japan, for inventing karaoke , thereby providing an entirely new way for people to learn to tolerate each other. Batty and Lawrence M. Dill, Biology Letters , vol. Spark, Annals of Improbable Research, vol. Spark , on behalf of John Paul Stapp's widow, Lilly. Murphy III, on behalf of his late father. Also see their subsequent publications. Yukio Hirose of Kanazawa University, for his chemical investigation of a bronze statue, in the city of Kanazawa , that fails to attract pigeons. John Trinkaus , of the Zicklin School of Business , New York City, for meticulously collecting data and publishing more than 80 detailed academic reports about things that annoyed him such as: Lal Bihari , of Uttar Pradesh, India , for a triple accomplishment: First, for leading an active life even though he has been declared legally dead ; Second, for waging a lively posthumous campaign against bureaucratic inertia and greedy relatives ; and Third, for creating the Association of Dead People.
Lal Bihari overcame the handicap of being dead, and managed to obtain a passport from the Indian government so that he could travel to Harvard to accept his Prize. Several weeks later, the Prize was presented to Lal Bihari himself in a special ceremony in India. Filmmaker Satish Kaushik will be making a film about the life and death and life of Lal Bihari. Moeliker , of Natuurhistorisch Museum Rotterdam , the Netherlands, for documenting the first scientifically recorded case of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard duck. Paxton , Phil Bowers, and D. Deeming, British Poultry Science , vol.
Arnd Leike of the University of Munich, for demonstrating that beer froth obeys the mathematical Law of Exponential Decay. Karl Kruszelnicki of The University of Sydney, for performing a comprehensive survey of human belly button lint -- who gets it, when, what color, and how much. Theodore Gray USA and Switzerland , for gathering many elements of the periodic table, and assembling them into the form of a four-legged periodic table table. Sreekumar and the late G. Nirmalan, Veterinary Research Communications , vol. Vicki Silvers Gier and David S. Reading Research and Instruction , vol.
Keita Sato , President of Takara Co. Norio Kogure, Executive Director, Kogure Veterinary Hospital , for promoting peace and harmony between the species by inventing Bow-Lingual , a computer-based automatic dog-to-human language translation device. Eduardo Segura, of Lavakan de Aste , in Tarragona, Spain, for inventing a washing machine for cats and dogs. The Journal of Trauma , vol.
David Schmidt of the University of Massachusetts for his partial solution to the question of why shower curtains billow inwards. Buck Weimer of Pueblo, Colorado for inventing Under-Ease , airtight underwear with a replaceable charcoal filter that removes bad-smelling gases before they escape.
Joel Slemrod , of the University of Michigan Business School, and Wojciech Kopczuk , of University of British Columbia [and who has since moved to Columbia University], for their conclusion that people find a way to postpone their deaths if that would qualify them for a lower rate on the inheritance tax.
John Richards of Boston, England, founder of The Apostrophe Protection Society , for his efforts to protect, promote, and defend the differences between plural and possessive. Child Development , vol. Awarded jointly to John Keogh of Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia, for patenting the wheel in the year , and to the Australian Patent Office for granting him Innovation Patent Several years after this prize was awarded, the patent office quietly revoked Mr.
Chittaranjan Andrade and B. Srihari of the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences , Bangalore, India, for their probing medical discovery that nose picking is a common activity among adolescents. Jasmuheen formerly known as Ellen Greve of Australia , first lady of Breatharianism , for her book " Living on Light ," which explains that although some people do eat food, they don't ever really need to. Geim, European Journal of Physics, v.
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Ten years later, in , Andre Geim won a Nobel Prize in physics for research on another subject. Cassano of the University of Pisa , and Hagop S. Akiskal of the University of California San Diego , for their discovery that, biochemically, romantic love may be indistinguishable from having severe obsessive-compulsive disorder. The Reverend Sun Myung Moon , for bringing efficiency and steady growth to the mass-marriage industry , with, according to his reports , a couple wedding in , a couple wedding in , an couple wedding in , a couple wedding in , a 30,couple wedding in , a ,couple wedding in , and a 36,,couple wedding in Chris Niswander of Tucson, Arizona, for inventing PawSense , software that detects when a cat is walking across your computer keyboard.
The British Royal Navy , for ordering its sailors to stop using live cannon shells, and to instead just shout "Bang! Keller, Physics of Fluids vol. The British Standards Institution for its six-page specification BS of the proper way to make a cup of tea. The Kansas State Board of Education and the Colorado State Board of Education , for mandating that children should not believe in Darwin 's theory of evolution any more than they believe in Newton 's theory of gravitation , Faraday 's and Maxwell 's theory of electromagnetism , or Pasteur 's theory that germs cause disease.
Arvid Vatle of Stord, Norway, for carefully collecting, classifying, and contemplating which kinds of containers his patients chose when submitting urine samples. Takeshi Makino, president of The Safety Detective Agency in Osaka, Japan, for his involvement with S-Check , an infidelity detection spray that wives can apply to their husbands' underwear. Charl Fourie and Michelle Wong of Johannesburg, South Africa, for inventing an automobile burglar alarm consisting of a detection circuit and a flamethrower. The late George and Charlotte Blonsky of New York City and San Jose, California, for inventing a device US Patent 3,, to aid women in giving birth — the woman is strapped onto a circular table, and the table is then rotated at high speed.
Troy Hurtubise , of North Bay, Ontario, for developing, and personally testing a suit of armor that is impervious to grizzly bears. Peter Fong of Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, for contributing to the happiness of clams by giving them Prozac. Huminski, and Lynette M.
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D'urso, " Journal of Experimental Zoology , vol. Jacques Benveniste of France, for his homeopathic discovery that not only does water have memory, but that the information can be transmitted over telephone lines and the Internet. Benveniste also won the Ig Nobel Chemistry Prize. Dolores Krieger , Professor Emerita, New York University, for demonstrating the merits of therapeutic touch , a method by which nurses manipulate the energy fields of ailing patients by carefully avoiding physical contact with those patients. Jerald Bain of Mt. Deepak Chopra of The Chopra Center for Well Being, La Jolla, California, for his unique interpretation of quantum physics as it applies to life, liberty, and the pursuit of economic happiness.
Mark Hostetler of the University of Florida, for his scholarly book, " That Gunk on Your Car ," which identifies the insect splats that appear on automobile windows. Richard Hoagland of New Jersey, for identifying artificial features on the moon and on Mars, including a human face on Mars and ten-mile high buildings on the far side of the moon. Sanford Wallace , president of Cyber Promotions of Philadelphia -- neither rain nor sleet nor dark of night have stayed this self-appointed courier from delivering electronic junk mail to all the world.
Doron Witztum , Eliyahu Rips and Yoav Rosenberg of Israel, and Michael Drosnin of the United States, for their hairsplitting statistical discovery that the bible contains a secret, hidden code. Charnetski and Francis X. Harrison of Muzak Ltd. Harrison, Perceptual and Motor Skills, vol. Akihiro Yokoi of Wiz Company in Chiba, Japan and Aki Maita of Bandai Company in Tokyo, the father and mother of Tamagotchi , for diverting millions of person-hours of work into the husbandry of virtual pets. James Johnston of R. Reynolds, Joseph Taddeo of U.
Horrigan of Liggett Group, Donald S. Congress , that nicotine is not addictive. Robert Matthews of Aston University, England, for his studies of Murphy's Law , and especially for demonstrating that toast often falls on the buttered side. Jacques Chirac , President of France, for commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of Hiroshima with atomic bomb tests in the Pacific. George Goble of Purdue University, for his blistering world record time for igniting a barbeque grill-three seconds, using charcoal and liquid oxygen.
The editors of the journal Social Text , for eagerly publishing research that they could not understand, that the author said was meaningless, and which claimed that reality does not exist. The paper was " Transgressing the Boundaries: Genco of the University of Buffalo for his discovery that "financial strain is a risk indicator for destructive periodontal disease.
Don Featherstone of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, for his ornamentally evolutionary invention, the plastic pink flamingo. John Martinez of J. Powder Technology, November, , vol. Awarded jointly to Nick Leeson and his superiors at Barings Bank and to Robert Citron of Orange County, California , for using the calculus of derivatives to demonstrate that every financial institution has its limits. Shannahoff-Khalsa, and Michael R. International Journal of Neuroscience , vol.
Busch and James R. Starling , of Madison Wisconsin, for their deeply penetrating research report, " Rectal foreign bodies: Surgery , September , pp. The Taiwan National Parliament, for demonstrating that politicians gain more by punching, kicking and gouging each other than by waging war against other nations. Shigeru Watanabe , Junko Sakamoto, and Masumi Wakita, of Keio University , for their success in training pigeons to discriminate between the paintings of Picasso and those of Monet.
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Ergonomics , vol 37, no. Journal of Periodontology , vol. Prevalence Among Deployed US Troops," and especially for their numerical analysis of bowel movement frequency. John Hagelin of Maharishi University and The Institute of Science, Technology and Public Policy, promulgator of peaceful thoughts , for his experimental conclusion that 4, trained meditators caused an 18 percent decrease in violent crime in Washington, D.
This prize is awarded in two parts. First, to Patient X, formerly of the US Marine Corps, valiant victim of a venomous bite from his pet rattlesnake, for his determined use of electroshock therapy -- at his own insistence, automobile sparkplug wires were attached to his lip, and the car engine revved to rpm for five minutes.
Lopez of Westport, NY, valiant veterinarian and friend of all creatures great and small, for his series of experiments in obtaining ear mites from cats , inserting them into his own ear, and carefully observing and analyzing the results. Lee Kuan Yew , former Prime Minister of Singapore , practitioner of the psychology of negative reinforcement, for his thirty-year study of the effects of punishing three million citizens of Singapore whenever they spat, chewed gum, or fed pigeons. Ron Hubbard, ardent author of science fiction and founding father of Scientology, for his crackling Good Book, " Dianetics ," which is highly profitable to mankind or to a portion thereof.
Texas State Senator Bob Glasgow , wise writer of logical legislation, for sponsoring the drug control law which make it illegal to purchase beakers, flasks, test tubes, or other laboratory glassware without a permit. Jan Pablo Davila of Chile, tireless trader of financial futures and former employee of the state-owned Codelco Company , for instructing his computer to "buy" when he meant "sell," and subsequently attempting to recoup his losses by making increasingly unprofitable trades that ultimately lost.
The Southern Baptist Church of Alabama , mathematical measurers of morality, for their county-by-county estimate of how many Alabama citizens will go to Hell if they don't repent.