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Winners of the Ig Nobel Prize in 2014
Ig Nobel Prize Laureate in 2009 demonstrates his invention : bra that quickly when necessary converted into a pair of protective face masks; participate in the ceremony of the three Nobel Prize winners (left to right): Wolfgang Ketterle, Orhan Pamuk, and Paul Krugman, i>
September 18, 2014 at Harvard University the regular ceremony of the Ig Nobel Prize . This prize is given for funny, at first glance, the scientific discoveries that are "forced to laugh at first, and then - to think." The challenge is to "draw attention and spur people's interest in science, medicine and technology».
Apparent amusing discoveries may be of practical importance. For example, as эффект Dunning-Kruger (winner of 2000), which explains a lot in shaping the social hierarchy of human society.
Or take the Ig Nobel prize this year in the field of medicine. She received a medical team from the Detroit Medical Center. They found that in certain cases, bleeding disorders (trombastenii Glantsmana) best stops bleeding tampon from pieces of sliced pork, such as those that are sold in the store for sandwiches. In pork, there are some substances that improve clotting, and a large amount of salt absorbs the liquid.
It would seem, fun, funny guy shoves his nose pieces of bacon. But this method someday might save someone's life by preventing fatal blood loss. [& Quot; Nasal Packing With Strips of Cured Pork as Treatment for Uncontrollable Epistaxis in a Patient with Glanzmann Thrombasthenia & quot ; Ian Humphreys, Sonal Saraiya, Walter Belenky and James Dworkin, Annals of Otology, Rhinology and Laryngology, vol. 120, no. 11, November 2011, pp. 732-36]
Prize in psychology received a study of people who wake up late in the morning. It turned out that they tend to be more self-respect, more manipulative and psychopathic than people regularly getting up early. [& Quot; Creatures of the Night: Chronotypes and the Dark Triad Traits & quot; Peter K. Jonason, Amy Jones, and Minna Lyons, Personality and Individual Differences, vol. 55, no. 5, 2013, pp. 538-541]
Truly unique study group held a Czech biologists. They determined that the dog during bowel movements are in accordance with the lines of Earth's magnetic field! They deservedly won the award in biology. [& Quot; Dogs are sensitive to small variations of the Earth's magnetic field & quot; Vlastimil Hart, Petra Nováková, Erich Pascal Malkemper, Sabine Begall, Vladimír Hanzal, Miloš Ježek, Tomáš Kušta, Veronika Němcová, Jana Adámková, Kateřina Benediktová, Jaroslav Červený and Hynek Burda, Frontiers in Zoology, 10:80, 27 December 27, 2013 ]
Another "dirty" theme - the use of young fecal bacteria as probiotic starter culture for fermented sausages (Prize for Nutrition). This is a typical example of the discovery, which sounds strange, but has great potential practical applications. [& Quot; Characterization of Lactic Acid Bacteria Isolated from Infant Faeces as Potential Probiotic Starter Cultures for Fermented Sausages & quot; Raquel Rubio, Anna Jofré, Belén Martín, Teresa Aymerich, Margarita Garriga, Food Microbiology, vol. 38, 2014, pp. 303-311]
Nobel laureates Eric Maskin and Rich Roberts try sausages made by the new Spanish technology i>
Frequenter Ig Nobel Prize ceremony can become Professor Kiyoshi Mabuchi (Kiyoshi Mabuchi). He has long been engaged in search of a biocompatible lubricant for the human body. At this time in the scope of his interests were bananas. Professor measured friction force between the foot and the banana peel, as well as between the cloth and the floor (Prize in Physics). [& Quot; Frictional Coefficient under Banana Skin & quot; Kiyoshi Mabuchi, Kensei Tanaka, Daichi Uchijima and Rina Sakai, Tribology Online 7, no. 3, 2012, pp. 147-151].
Curiously, it took a lot of research for bananas, so that laboratory for a long time get free meals.
Professor Kang Lee of the University of Toronto studied how people respond to human faces, baked on a piece of toast. It was found that when people see the face or any other unfamiliar object, they activate the brain area responsible for facial recognition (award in the field of neuroscience). [& Quot; Seeing Jesus in Toast: Neural and Behavioral Correlates of Face Pareidolia & quot; Jiangang Liu, Jun Li, Lu Feng, Ling Li, Jie Tian, Kang Lee, Cortex, vol. 53, April 2014, Pages 60-77]
Another unusual study conducted by Norwegian biologists. They tested whether reindeer are afraid to Spitsbergen people dressed in white clothes and reminds polar bears. [& Quot; Response Behaviors of Svalbard Reindeer towards Humans and Humans Disguised as Polar Bears on Edgeøya & quot; Eigil Reimers and Sindre Eftestøl, Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, vol. 44, no. 4, 2012, pp. 483-9]
Award in the Arts for the study were given the level of pain experienced by the people of the laser beam, if this watch a beautiful painting or a hideous picture. [& Quot; Aesthetic value of paintings affects pain thresholds & quot; Marina de Tommaso, Michele Sardaro, and Paolo Livrea, Consciousness and Cognition, vol. 17, no. 4, 2008, pp. 1152-1162]
Individual words are worthy of respect at the National Institute of Statistics. To fit into the norms of the European Union on the growth of the national economy, they really included in the official GDP volume financial turnover in prostitution, drug trafficking, smuggling and other illegal activities of the shadow economy. [& Quot; European System of National and Regional Accounts (ESA 2010) & quot; Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union, 2013]
Premiums Health received just three studies of mental health of people who live cat. There are certain signs that communicate with a cat associated with the risk of depression.
But there is no reason to panic, "Perhaps the reason the reverse: people with an increased risk of depression decide to get a cat - explains Dr. David Hanauer (David Hanauer) of the Department of Pediatrics, University of Michigan. - I'm not in any way encourage kotovladeltsev rid of the cats. " [& Quot; Changes in personality profile of young women with latent toxoplasmosis & quot; Jaroslav Flegr and Jan Havlicek, Folia Parasitologica, vol. 46, 1999, pp. 22-28] [& quot; 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? & quot; Jaroslav Flegr, Marek Preiss, Jiřı Klose, Jan Havlıček, Martina Vitáková, and Petr Kodym, Biological Psychology, vol. 63, 2003, pp. 253-268] [& quot; Describing the Relationship between Cat Bites and Human Depression Using Data from an Electronic Health Record & quot; David Hanauer, Naren Ramakrishnan, Lisa Seyfried, PLoS ONE, vol. 8, no. 8, 2013, e70585]
Source: habrahabr.ru/post/237537/
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