Ig Nobel Prize 2008 Bashny.Net

Ignobelevskaya prize (Ig Nobel Prize), which Russian media also often referred to as Ig Nobel, was established in 1991. The prize for the most pointless or just amusing study is presented annually to an organization with a great title "Annals of Improbable Research» (Annals of Improbable Research). Awards are traditionally divided into ten categories and is awarded in the walls of Harvard University. Eighteenth awards ceremony, held this year, said ...

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Prize for Research in the field of nutrition

Prize shared Massimiliano Zampini of the University of Trento and Charles Spence of Oxford. Knights progress modified using electronics crunching potato chips. As they argue, when you run the resulting soundtrack eaten chips seem to be more tasty. Work is gnazvanie "The role of auditory stimuli in the perception of freshness and crispiness of potato chips." The resulting "delicious" sound can be heard on the site BBC.



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Peace Prize

This award went to Swedish federal Commission on the Ethics of biotechnology for research to determine the plants legally possess dignity. Do not you dare insult the word carrot and the more action!



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Archaeology

Brazilians Astolfo Araujo and Jose Marcellino published a paper entitled "The role of the battleships in the movement of archaeological materials. The experimental approach. " The fact that armadillos are known for their destructive penchant for digging holes than harm archaeological science. The essence and the size of the damage and were the subject of investigation.



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Biology

A group of French veterinarians distinguished experimental work entitled "Comparison of jumping dog (Ctenocephalides canis) and cat (Ctenocephalides felis felis) fleas", telling the world that, in comparison with a cat, a dog flea has a much higher jumping ability. She is able to jump as much as much as twenty centimeters above.



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Medicine

Misanthropic medical research groups, prove that the more expensive the medicine, the more effective it seems. Two different groups of subjects were fed a placebo (a dummy capsule), saying that it was an anesthetic, and then beat them current. The difference was that one group was told that means is 2, 5 dollars per tablet, while the second - 10 cents. Those who drank more "expensive" fake assured that feel pain less. The work is called "commercial features the placebo and therapeutic efficacy».



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The science of thinking

Together Japanese and Hungarian researchers has been proven that slime molds (mobile mushroom mass) possess the rudiments of thought and are able to find a way out of a simple maze.



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Economy

Prize in Economics this year received physiologists determine the ability of women to give signals of readiness to become pregnant. It is a serious study was awarded for the very kind of scientific approach. It was found that the strippers performing lap dances on private customers receive a much more solid tip during ovulation.



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Physics

American physicists mathematically proved that a bundle of string, wire, or hair, being left unattended, it will inevitably start up in knots without any external influences.



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Chemistry

The prize was divided between two groups of researchers from the US and Taiwan. The first found that Pepsi-Cola and Coca-Cola can be used as a contraceptive because they have spermicidal properties. The latter proved the opposite. However, there is possible to use different materials - the Americans claim that sperm die only diet cola.



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