Unbelievable facts
Every year, Harvard in the United States pays tribute to achievements “that make people laugh and then think.” On September 20, the 22nd Ig Nobel Prize for the strangest unusual and funny scientific discoveries.
The award itself takes place on the eve of the prestigious and world-famous Nobel Prize, helping us look at science with some humor.
Here are the winners of the most interesting and fun inventions and discoveries of the year:
1. Psychology
Anita Eerland and Rolf Zwaan, as well as Tulio Guadalupe from Peru, won an award for their research: “Leaning your torso to the left makes the Eiffel Tower shorter.” Scientists have found that when we lean to the left, we evaluate things as smaller. For example, those who look at the Eiffel Tower at a slope to the left estimate its height to be 12 meters less.
2. The world
The Russian company SKN won the Peace Prize for developing a technology for turning combat ammunition into nanodiamonds.
3. Acoustics
Japanese Katsutaka Kurihara (Kazutaka Kurihara) and Koji Tsukada (Koji Tsukada) were awarded for their invention “Speech Jammer”, a device that stops the endless flow of speech, making the talker hear his own words with a short delay.
4. Neurology
American scientists Craig Bennett, Abigail Baird, Michael Miller, George Wolford were awarded the Ig Nobel Prize for proving All that researchers who study the brain with sophisticated tools and simple statistics can see meaningful brain function anywhere, even in dead salmon.
5. Chemistry
Johan Pettersson from Sweden and Rwanda has solved the mystery of why some houses in Anderslov in Sweden have people's hair turning green.
6. Literature
The U.S. Government Accountability Office was awarded for its report report, which recommends preparing a report on a report on a report on a report on a report on a report on a report on a report on a report on a report on a report.
7. Physics
Researchers Joseph Keller, Raymond Goldstein from the US, and Patrick Warren and Robin Ball deserve an award for calculating the balance of power, which form and make the ponytail hairstyle move.
8. Hydromechanics
Ruslan Krechetnikov and Hans Mayer were awarded the prize for studying liquid spillage. They found out what happens to a walking person when he carries a cup of coffee. Scientists have shown that the properties of the mug, the legs and the liquid are combined in such a way that we most often pour coffee between the seventh and tenth steps.
9. Anatomy
Frans de Waal from the Netherlands and American explorer Jennifer Pokorny won an award for discovering that chimps can recognize other chimpanzees from a photograph their butt.
10. Medicine
Emmanuel Ben-Soussan and Michel Antonietti from France were awarded the Medical Prize for advising doctors performing colonoscopy (procedure for intestinal examination) how to reduce the chance that the patient can eject, so to speak, excrement.