Thursday, September 14, at Harvard hosted the 27th ceremony of awarding the IG Nobel prize (Ig Nobel Prize) – a parody of the most coveted awards of the scientific world, the Nobel prize. The IG Nobel prize is awarded to scientists who conduct unusual and ingenious research, and the purpose of this action is to attract the attention of people to science, medicine and technology. The award winners are awarded a real Nobel laureates.
During the ceremony awarded 10 awards in the areas of:
- physics,
- Economics,
- the world
- anatomy,
- medicine,
- biology,
- dynamics of liquids and other.
This year the themes of the selected studies are really striking in their originality.
For example, the IG Nobel prize in physics was awarded to work «On the rheology of cats» Marc Antoine Fardin in which scientist proved that cats can technically be considered as a solid body and liquid, as taking the form of a vessel in which lies. The author even brought a special indicator — a number or Deborah number Deborah – which shows the fluidity of a cat.
The IG Nobel peace prize went to the team of Swiss researchers who, in the course of the experiment proved that playing on the didgeridoo, the instrument of the Australian aborigines, can help to cure snoring.
The prize for medicine went to researchers from Leon, clear about the definition of what areas of the brain responsible for revulsion to cheese.
James Heathcote, a therapist from Kent, received the award in the field of anatomy for solving the mystery of why older people have such big ears (no, they don’t grow, their gravity pull) and the speed with which they increase in people older than 30 years (0.22 mm a year)
Marc Abrahams, editor of the magazine «Annals of improbable research» and the founder of the award, completed the ceremony as follows: «If you didn’t win an IG Nobel prize tonight and especially if you won, good luck next year.»
