REFERENCE: “Effect of Different Types of Textiles on Sexual Activity. and hosted by Pair Networks. ECONOMICS PRIZE [NEW ZEALAND, UK] — Mark Avis, Sarah Forbes, and Shelagh Ferguson, for assessing the perceived personalities of rocks, from a sales and marketing perspective. [Published as “Chewing gum flavor affects measures of global complexity of multichannel EEG,” T. Yagyu, et al., Neuropsychobiology, vol. LITERATURE PRIZE [AUSTRALIA, EL SALVADOR, UK] — Thea Blackler, Rafael Gomez, Vesna Popovic and M. Helen Thompson, for documenting that most people who use complicated products do not read the instruction manual. 68, no. [REFERENCE: “Secret Life : Firsthand, Documented Accounts of UFO Abductions“], CONSUMER ENGINEERING: Ron Popeil, incessant inventor and perpetual pitchman of late night television, for redefining the industrial revolution with such devices as the Veg-O-Matic, the Pocket Fisherman, Mr. You can watch archived video on C-SPAN. 523-31. WHO ATTENDED THE IG NOBEL CEREMONY: John Culvenor. REPRODUCTION PRIZE [EGYPT] — The late Ahmed Shafik, for studying the effects of wearing polyester, cotton, or wool trousers on the sex life of rats, and for conducting similar tests with human males. 44707, April 7, 2017. WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY: Gordon Pennycook, Nathaniel Barr, Derek Koehler, and Jonathan Fugelsang. 80–84. Roger Mieusset and Bourras Bengoudifa, for measuring scrotal temperature asymmetry in naked and clothed postmen in France. VISIONARY TECHNOLOGY: Presented jointly to Jay Schiffman of Farmington Hills, Michigan, crack inventor of AutoVision, an image projection device that makes it possible to drive a car and watch television at the same time, and to the Michigan state legislature, for making it legal to do so. You can watch the video on our youTube Channel. 283-284. PSYCHOLOGY: 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. 606-7.]. This combination makes visual inspection for such inclusions highly impractical—if not outright impossible. 39, no. 79-80. Having a high quality tempered glass is very important,I don’t know how to select the best tempered glass. Shigeru Watanabe, Mineko Ohnishi, Kaori Imai, Eiji Kawano, and Seiji Igarashi, for estimating the total saliva volume produced per day by a typical five-year-old child 1511-14. 1-5. MEDICINE: Peter Barss of McGill University, for his impactful medical report “InjuriesDue to Falling Coconuts.”, [PUBLISHED IN: The Journal of Trauma, vol. 2667–72. 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. DEMO: . Moral Consideration of Plants for Their Own Sake”. REFERENCE: “Shear-Stress-Mediated Refolding of Proteins from Aggregates and Inclusion Bodies,” Tom Z. Yuan, Callum F. G. Ormonde, Stephan T. Kudlacek, Sameeran Kunche, Joshua N. Smith, William A. PSYCHOLOGY: Gian Vittorio Caprara and Claudio Barbaranelli of the University of Rome, and Philip Zimbardo of Stanford University, for their discerning report “Politicians’ Uniquely Simple Personalities.”. 288-302. REFERENCE: International Journal of Neuroscience, vol. [REFERENCE: Witztum, Rips and Rosenberg,’s original research was published as”Equidistant Letter Sequences in the Book of Genesis,” “Statistical Science,” Vol. REFERENCE: “Misophonia: Diagnostic Criteria for a New Psychiatric Disorder,” Arjan Schroder, Nienke Vulink, and Damiaan Denys, PLoS ONE, vol. BIOLOGY PRIZE: Darryl Gwynne (of CANADA and AUSTRALIA and the UK and the USA) and David Rentz (of AUSTRALIA and the USA) for discovering that a certain kind of beetle mates with a certain kind of Australian beer bottle, REFERENCE: “Beetles on the Bottle: Male Buprestids Mistake Stubbies for Females (Coleoptera),” D.T. 2, 1973, pp. Should the manufacturer pay? PHYSICS: Len Fisher [UK and Australia] for calculating the optimal way to dunk a biscuit, and Jean-Marc Vanden-Broeck of the [UK and Belgium], and Joseph Keller [USA] for calculating how to make a teapot spout that does not drip. HYGIENE: Eduardo Segura, of Lavakan de Aste, in Tarragona, Spain, for inventing a washing machine for cats and dogs. 2, May 2004, pp. We have a good idea as to how glass was broken, but we have been told that by resting carton on glass, this causes thermal breakages. MANAGEMENT PRIZE [CHINA] 64, no. REFERENCES: US Patent #5868140, and the book Going Going NUTS!, by Gregg A. Miller, PublishAmerica, 2004, ISBN 1413753167. WHO ATTENDED THE IG NOBEL CEREMONY: The winner was unable to travel, and delivered his acceptance speech via video. 35, no. [NOTE: Filmmaker Satish Kaushik will be making a film about the life (and death and life) of Lal Bihari.]. 83, 2, July 2014, pp. Marie-Christine Cadiergues, Christel Joubert, and  Michel Franc of Ecole Nationale Veterinaire de Toulouse, France for discovering that the fleas that live on a dog can jump higher than the fleas that live on a cat. 9, August 26, 2005, pp. [NOTE: all companies are U.S.-based unless otherwise noted. WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY: Jaroslava Durdiaková and Peter Celec will be at the ceremony. 4, 2008, pp. 47-82. 40, no. ENTOMOLOGY PRIZE [USA] 90, no. 375-80. While such damage may not be readily apparent, stress concentrations around these imperfections can occur as the glass expands and contracts in response to in-service temperature changes, wind load, building movement, and other environmental factors. 7957, February28, 1976, pp. 7, February 21, 2003, pp. Smith, Craig R. Williams, Michael J. Tyler, and Brian D. Williams, Applied Herpetology, vol. Fetish 01/26/18: The Expectant Rape Victim (4.60) Angel makes a rape-date, but direction unclear. REFERENCE: “Pizza Consumption and the Risk of Breast, Ovarian and Prostate Cancer,” Silvano Gallus, Renato Talamini, Cristina Bosetti, Eva Negri, Maurizio Montella, Silvia Franceschi, Attilio Giacosa, and Carlo La Vecchia, European Journal of Cancer Prevention, vol. 1–10. 393–396. ANTHROPOLOGY PRIZE [SWEDEN, ROMANIA, DENMARK, THE NETHERLANDS, GERMANY, UK, INDONESIA, ITALY] — Tomas Persson, Gabriela-Alina Sauciuc, and Elainie Madsen, for collecting evidence, in a zoo, that chimpanzees imitate humans about as often, and about as well, as humans imitate chimpanzees. 116-7. NUTRITION PRIZE: 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. 5, November 1992, pp. 52, vol. And for an hour it worked. Also see their subsequent publications. If you are devoted to prayer you will explode regularly with prayers of praise and thanks and need and they will not last more than a few seconds. 23, June 5 2007, pp. 30, no. Are Cows More Likely to Lie Down the Longer They Stand? 59-69. The 2014 Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded on Thursday night, September 18th, 2014 at the 24th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, at Harvard’s Sanders Theatre. REFERENCE: “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. REFERENCE: “Human Saliva as a Cleaning Agent for Dirty Surfaces,” by Paula M. S. Romão, Adília M. Alarcão and César A.N. 81, no. PUBLISHED IN: Polar Biology, vol. The ceremony was webcast live. But I wonder why did you put 11 why Finland is the worst Scandinavian country. 27, no. 1, 2010, pp. MEDICINE PRIZE [USA, INDIA]: Ian Humphreys, Sonal Saraiya, Walter Belenky and James Dworkin, for treating “uncontrollable” nosebleeds, using the method of nasal-packing-with-strips-of-cured-pork. 4, 2012, pp. 33, no. 63, No. REFERENCE: “Gorillas in Our Midst,” Daniel J. Simons and Christopher F. Chabris, vol. PHYSIOLOGY and ENTOMOLOGY PRIZE — Awarded jointly to two individuals: Justin Schmidt [USA, CANADA], for painstakingly creating the Schmidt Sting Pain Index, which rates the relative pain people feel when stung by various insects; and to Michael L. Smith [PANAMA, US, UK, THE NETHERLANDS], for carefully arranging for honey bees to sting him repeatedly on 25 different locations on his body, to learn which locations are the least painful (the skull, middle toe tip, and upper arm). REFERENCE: “Inhibiting and facilitating conditions of the human smile: a nonobtrusive test of the facial feedback hypothesis,” Fritz Strack, Leonard L. Martin, and Sabine Stepper, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, vol. 789–97. 711-23. PEACE: Jacques Chirac, President of France, for commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of Hiroshima with atomic bomb tests in the Pacific. If they hadn't really listened to the concerns of the business (like they felt their ads weren't given priority, and they didn't like some of the content in the newspaper), they wouldn't have gotten the … 116, no. The corrected citation is:1999 PHYSICS PRIZE: Len Fisher [UK and Australia] for calculating the optimal way to dunk a biscuit, and Jean-Marc Vanden-Broeck [UK and Belgium] and Joseph Keller [USA], for calculating how to make a teapot spout that does not drip. PHYSICS: Andre Geim of the University of Nijmegen (the Netherlands) and Sir Michael Berry of Bristol University (UK), for using magnets to levitate a frog. [REFERENCE:”Dying to Save Taxes: Evidence from Estate Tax Returns on the Death Elasticity,” National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 101-9.]. These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:00,873 --> 00:00:05,873 Subtitles by explosiveskull www.OpenSubtitles.org 2 00:00:05,970 --> 00:00:08,441 [man] Okay. 02 (A Spin-Off) (4.49) Meteor crash turns women into sluts. 627-633. 203, no. 8, no 12, December 26, 2013, e82756. Ourshower door exploded at about 1:30 am this morning. The 2008 Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded on Thursday night, October 2nd, 2008 at the 18th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, at Harvard’s Sanders Theatre. WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY: Atsuki Higashiyama. 376-382. 1178.). LITERATURE: Erich von Daniken, visionary raconteur and author of “Chariots of the Gods,” for explaining how human civilization was influenced by ancient astronauts from outer space. 1, July 1998, pp. The authors 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. This glass can be made safe with the application of clear safety film applied to the glass and then anchored to the frame with a structural silicone. ECONOMICS. 2, no. 41, no. Gwynne and D.C.F. REFERENCE: “In-Vivo Biomagnetic Characterisation of the American Cockroach,” Ling-Jun Kong, Herbert Crepaz, Agnieszka Górecka, Aleksandra Urbanek, Rainer Dumke, Tomasz Paterek, Scientific Reports, vol. 3, 2013, pp. [REFERENCE: Deepak Chopra’s books “Quantum Healing,” “Ageless Body, Timeless Mind,” etc.]. We offer Technical Service and Support. You can watch the video on our youTube Channel. 185.]. 673-82. Such incidents occur when the gaskets, setting blocks, or edge blocks in a metal window or curtain wall frame are missing or do not sufficiently cushion the glass against glass-to-metal contact caused by temperature or wind-related movement. Thermal stress 19, October 2004,  pp. WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY: Diallah Karim, Anthony Harnden, Helen Ashdown, Nigel D’Souza, Abdel Kader Allouni. PEACE PRIZE: Arturas Zuokas, the mayor of Vilnius, LITHUANIA, for demonstrating that the problem of illegally parked luxury cars can be solved by running them over with an armored tank. 6719, February 11, 1999, p. 469. 18, no. vol. BIOLOGY PRIZE [UK] — Awarded jointly to: Charles Foster, for living in the wild as, at different times, a badger, an otter, a deer, a fox, and a bird; and to Thomas Thwaites, for creating prosthetic extensions of his limbs that allowed him to move in the manner of, and spend time roaming hills in the company of, goats. 3, April 2009, pp. NUTRITION: John Martinez of J. Martinez & Company in Atlanta, Georgia, for educating the world about Luak Coffee, the world’s most expensive coffee, which is made from coffee beans ingested and excreted by the luak (aka, the palm civet), a bobcat-like animal native to Indonesia. First Report of Human Blood in the Diet of the Hairy-Legged Vampire Bat, The Neural Bases of Disgust for Cheese: An fMRI Study, Is That Me or My Twin? (at about the 12 minute mark). 27-46. WHO PLANS TO ATTEND THE CEREMONY: Thea Blackler. Scientists Weigh In on the 5-Second Rule,” ACES College News, September 2, 2003. WHO ATTENDED THE IG NOBEL CEREMONY: Jillian Clarke. (Patent WO/1999/032331, “A Security System for a Vehicle“). How did you measure this 7mm? This combination makes visual inspection for such inclusions highly impractical, if not impossible. ECONOMICS: The investors of Lloyds of London, heirs to 300 years of dull prudent management, for their bold attempt to insure disaster by refusing to pay for their company’s losses. I have a picture window toughened double glaze. 1543-1546. PEACE: The Taiwan National Parliament, for demonstrating that politicians gain more by punching, kicking and gouging each other than by waging war against other nations. REFERENCE: “Exploring Stock Managers’ Perceptions of the Human-Animal Relationship on Dairy Farms and an Association with Milk Production,” Catherine Bertenshaw [Douglas] and Peter Rowlinson, Anthrozoos, vol. February 28, 2012. If the thermally induced stress exceeds the edge strength of the glass, breakage occurs. 26, no. REFERENCE: “The Case of Moulay Ismael-Fact or Fancy?” Elisabeth Oberzaucher and Karl Grammer, PLOS ONE, vol. 2, 2019, pp. WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY: Tomasz Paterek, Herbert Crepaz, Rainer Dumke. bin Saif, A.D.P. 176-90. WHO ATTENDED THE IG NOBEL CEREMONY: Ramesh Balasubramaniam and Michael Turvey. Warrant, Current Biology, epub January 24, 2013. The ceremony was webcast . The Salesman of the Century : Inventing, Marketing. REFERENCE: “Decreased level of psychobiological factor novelty seeking and lower intelligence in men latently infected with the protozoan 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. PEACE: John Hagelin of Maharishi University and The Institute of Science, Technology and Public Policy, promulgator of peaceful thoughts, for his experimental conclusion that 4,000 trained meditators caused an 18 percent decrease in violent crime in Washington, D.C. [REFERENCE: “Interim Report: Results of the National Demonstration Project to Reduce Violent Crime and Improve Governmental Effectiveness In Washington, D.C., June 7 to July 30, 1993, Institute of Science, Technology and Public Policy, Fairfield, Iowa”], MEDICINE: This prize is awarded in two parts. 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. 3, no. 20, no. [REFERENCE: “Of Flying Frogs and Levitrons” by M.V. REFERENCE: Being a Beast, by Charles Foster, Profile Books, 2016, ISBN 978-1781255346. WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY: Charles Foster, Thomas Thwaites. REFERENCE: Numerous news reports. 1152-1162. WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY: Marina de Tommaso. 97, no. Majed Odeh, Harry Bassan, and Arie Oliven, Journal of Internal Medicine, vol. 70, no. Accounting for thermal stress is especially critical today, as current design trends and the desire for daylighting are driving the industry toward the specification of larger insulating glass units (IGUs) with high-performance solar control coatings. PRESS NOTE: 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. LITERATURE PRIZE: Ireland’s police service (An Garda Siochana), for writing and presenting more than fifty traffic tickets to the most frequent driving offender in the country — Prawo Jazdy — whose name in Polish means “Driving License”. 1643-1650. 139-56. WHO ATTENDED THE IG NOBEL PRIZE CEREMONY: Daniel Oppenheimer, MEDICINE: Francis M. Fesmire of the University of Tennessee College of Medicine, for his medical case report “Termination of Intractable Hiccups with Digital Rectal Massage“; and Majed Odeh, Harry Bassan, and Arie Oliven of Bnai Zion Medical Center, Haifa, Israel, for their subsequent medical case report also titled “Termination of Intractable Hiccups with Digital Rectal Massage.”. REFERENCE: “‘Beauty Is in the Eye of the Beer Holder’: People Who Think They Are Drunk Also Think They Are Attractive,” Laurent Bègue, Brad J. Bushman, Oulmann Zerhouni, Baptiste Subra, Medhi Ourabah, British Journal of Psychology, epub May 15, 2012. 7, 2010, pp. SCIENCE EDUCATION: 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. 134-8. WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY: Javier Morales and Miguel Apátiga. REFERENCE: “The Fastest Man on Earth,” Nick T. Spark, Annals of Improbable Research, vol. 1, March 2009, pp. 5, Sept/Oct 2003.] 1006-1010. WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY: They delivered a short video acceptance speech, filmed in a cave. no pattern for spontaneous breakage. 31-8. 217-252. However, it is about twice as strong as annealed glass. His friend Madhu Kapoor therefore came to the Ig Nobel Ceremony and accepted the Prize on behalf of Lal Bihari. [REFERENCE: “The Salesman of the Century : Inventing, Marketing, and Selling on TV: How I Did It and How You Can Too!“], BIOLOGY: Paul Williams Jr. of the Oregon State Health Division and Kenneth W. Newell of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, bold biological detectives, for their pioneering study, “Salmonella Excretion in Joy-Riding Pigs.” [Published in American Journal of Public Health and the Nation’s Health, vol. The 2015 Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded on Thursday night, September 17th, 2015 at the 25th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, at Harvard’s Sanders Theatre. REFERENCE: “Argon Plasma Coagulation in the Treatment of Hemorrhagic Radiation Proctitis is Efficient But Requires a Perfect Colonic Cleansing to Be Safe,” E. Ben-Soussan, M. Antonietti, G. Savoye, S. Herve, P. Ducrotté, and E. Lerebours, European Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, vol. Scientists Weigh In on the 5-Second Rule, Dasani, a transparent form of water, which for precautionary reasons has been made unavailable to consumers, Donald J. Smith and his father, the late Frank J. Smith, http://viscog.beckman.uiuc.edu/media/ig.html, herrings apparently communicate by farting, Sounds Produced by Herring (Clupea harengus) Bubble Release, Pacific and Atlantic Herring Produce Burst Pulse Sounds, 13th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, An Analysis of the Forces Required to Drag Sheep over Various Surfaces, Navigation-Related Structural Change In the Hippocampi of Taxi Drivers, Politicians’ Uniquely Simple Personalities, chemical investigation of a bronze statue, in the city of Kanazawa, leading an active life even though he has been declared legally dead, bureaucratic inertia and greedy relatives, the Prize was presented to Lal Bihari himself in a special ceremony in India, Filmmaker Satish Kaushik will be making a film, The First Case of Homosexual Necrophilia in the Mallard Anas platyrhynchos, 12th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, Courtship Behaviour of Ostriches Towards Humans Under Farming Conditions in Britain, Demonstration of the Exponential Decay Law Using Beer Froth, comprehensive survey of human belly button lint, Estimation of the Total Surface Area in Indian Elephants (Elephas maximus indicus), The Effects of Pre-Existing Inappropriate Highlighting on Reading Comprehension, Station for Preparing Cleaning Disinfecting Delousing and Hydromassaging Animals, Scrotal Asymmetry in Man and in Ancient Sculpture, 11th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, the question of why shower curtains billow inwards, Dying to Save Taxes: Evidence from Estate Tax Returns on the Death Elasticity, An Ecological Study of Glee in Small Groups of Preschool Children, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, A Preliminary Survey of Rhinotillexomania in an Adolescent Sample, 10th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One’s Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Alteration of the platelet serotonin transporter in romantic love, Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Male and Female Genitals During Coitus and Female Sexual Arousal, a cat is walking across your computer keyboard, The social life of donuts: Commodity and community in postwar Canada, inventing the self-perfuming business suit, The Relationships Among Height, Penile Length, and Foot Size, Farting as a Defence Against Unspeakable Dread, Chewing gum flavor affects measures of global complexity of multichannel EEG, The Monuments of Mars: A City on the Edge of Forever, electrochemical incineration of domestic rubbish, Equidistant Letter Sequences in the Book of Genesis. My window has spontaneously shattered on a hot night. (奚广安) Xi Guang-An, (莫天祥) Mo Tian-Xiang, (杨康生) Yang Kang-Sheng, (杨广生) Yang Guang-Sheng, and (凌显四) Ling Xian Si, five professional hitmen in Guangxi, China, who managed a contract for a hit job (a murder performed for money) in the following way: After accepting payment to perform the murder, Xi Guang-An then instead subcontracted the task to Mo Tian-Xiang, who then instead subcontracted the task to Yang Kang-Sheng, who then instead subcontracted the task to Yang Guang-Sheng, who then instead subcontracted the task to Ling Xian-Si, with each subsequently enlisted hitman receiving a smaller percentage of the fee, and nobody actually performing a murder. 659-61. 571-81. WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY: Matthew Rockloff and Nancy Greer, ANATOMY PRIZE [UK] — James Heathcote, for his medical research study “Why Do Old Men Have Big Ears?”. COMPUTER SCIENCE: Chris Niswander of Tucson, Arizona, for inventing PawSense, software that detects when a cat is walking across your computer keyboard. The 2001 Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded on Thursday night, October 4th, 2001 at the 11th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, at Harvard’s Sanders Theatre. The decade is still young, but we've already been treated to some pretty memorable science fiction movies in the first year of it alone. NUTRITION PRIZE. 74-76. SAFETY ENGINEERING: Troy Hurtubise, of North Bay, Ontario, for developing, and personally testing a suit of armor that is impervious to grizzly bears. REFERENCE: “Neural Correlates of Interspecies Perspective Taking in the Post-Mortem Atlantic Salmon: An Argument For Multiple Comparisons Correction,” Craig M. Bennett, Abigail A. Baird, Michael B. Miller, and George L. Wolford, Journal of Serendipitous and Unexpected Results, vol. The ceremony was webcast. LITERATURE PRIZE: The US Government General Accountability Office, for issuing a report about reports about reports that recommends the preparation of a report about the report about reports about reports. 1056-60. WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY: Richard Stephens. LINGUISTICS PRIZE: Juan Manuel Toro, Josep B. Trobalon and Núria Sebastián-Gallés, of Universitat de Barcelona, for showing that rats sometimes cannot tell the difference between a person speaking Japanese backwards and a person speaking Dutch backwards. REFERENCE: “Faces and Behinds: Chimpanzee Sex Perception” Frans B.M. 239-249. 20 , no. REPRODUCTION PRIZE [EGYPT] — The late Ahmed Shafik, for studying the effects of wearing polyester, cotton, or wool trousers on the sex life of rats, and for conducting similar tests with human males. For this reason, heat-strengthened glass is often specified for applications demanding resistance to thermal stress and snow- and wind-loads. MEDICINE: Alan Kligerman, deviser of digestive deliverance, vanquisher of vapor, and inventor of Beano, for his pioneering work with anti-gas liquids that prevent bloat, gassiness, discomfort and embarassment. Berry and A.K. REFERENCE: “Kissing Reduces Allergic Skin Wheal Responses and Plasma Neurotrophin Levels,” Hajime Kimata, Physiology and Behavior, vol. 397, no. PUBLIC SAFETY PRIZE: John Senders of the University of Toronto, CANADA, for conducting a series of safety experiments in which a person drives an automobile on a major highway while a visor repeatedly flaps down over his face, blinding him. 58, no. 1, 99–103, 2008. They can fent, burn and or explode and set flameblethings like carpets, clothes and furniture on fire. 85, 2012. Product info [from Seems, Inc.]. PHYSICS PRIZE: Lianne Parkin, Sheila Williams, and Patricia Priest of the University of Otago, New Zealand, for demonstrating that, on icy footpaths in wintertime, people slip and fall less often if they wear socks on the outside of their shoes. WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY: Matteo Martini, Ilaria Bufalari. You can watch the video on our youTube Channel. The 2016 Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded on Thursday night, September 22, 2016 at the 26th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, at Harvard’s Sanders Theatre. 122, no. I also have photos of breakage in case anyone wants to see. van Bronswijk of Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands, for doing a census of all the mites, insects, spiders, pseudoscorpions, crustaceans, bacteria, algae, ferns and fungi with whom we share our beds each night. REFERENCE: “British Medical Journal,” vol. 29, no. 151-159. Risks of heat-soaking Microphone, and the Inside-the-Shell Egg Scrambler. Another type of safety glazing, laminated glass, is made by sandwiching an interlayer of vinyl (typically polyvinyl butyral [PVB]) between two layers of glass to hold the panel together if it is broken. (REFERENCE: “Unyttig om urinprøver,” Arvid Vatle, Tidsskift for Den norske laegeforening [The Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association], no. ATTENDING THE CEREMONY: Brad Bushman, Laurent Bègue, Medhi Ourabah. A 39-year company veteran, he is a board member for the Glass Association of North America (GANA) and chairs the Flat Glass Manufacturing Division. REFERENCE: http://www.compoundsecurity.co.uk. Any faced similar situation and can guide. Hi Kristin, Any ideas? 375-81. WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY: Geoffrey Miller and Brent Jordan. REFERENCE: “Pouring Flows With Separation,” Jean-Marc Vanden-Broeck and Joseph B. Keller, Physics of Fluids A: Fluid Dynamics, vol. BIOLOGY PRIZE: Libiao Zhang, Min Tan, Guangjian Zhu, Jianping Ye, Tiyu Hong, Shanyi Zhou, and Shuyi Zhang of China, and Gareth Jones of the University of Bristol, UK, for scientifically documenting fellatio in fruit bats. ], PEACE: Viliumas Malinauskus of Grutas, Lithuania, for creating the amusement park known as “Stalin World.”, TECHNOLOGY: Awarded jointly to John Keogh of Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia, for patenting the wheel in the year 2001, and to the Australian Patent Office for granting him Innovation Patent #2001100012. WHO PARTICIPATED IN THE CEREMONY: Stephan Reber, Takeshi Nishimura, Judith Janisch, Mark Robertson, and Tecumseh Fitch, PSYCHOLOGY PRIZE [CANADA, USA]

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