The 2020 Ig Nobels #ignobel have been announced and awarded!
improbable.com/ig-about/winne…
Some notable mentions -
Physics prize - Ivan Maksymov and Andriy Pototsky, for determining, experimentally, what happens to the shape of a living earthworm when one vibrates the earthworm at high frequency. nature.com/articles/s4159…
Gives an all together new meaning to the earthworm move.
PS - this is a damn cool paper. They have a theoretical model for modelling earthworm vibrations. Makes for good homework problems too. 😎 I might put an optical fibre on a vibrating plate now to see what happens... @im_sergei @MAChernysheva @Kudelinig what say?
Management prize - Five professional hitmen in Guangxi, China, who managed a contract for a hit job (a murder performed for money) - and sub-contracted it in cascade - and nobody actually performing the murder. usatoday.com/story/news/wor…
They could have made a killing. *Badumtss*
Medicine prize - For diagnosing a long-unrecognized medical condition: Misophonia, the distress at hearing other people make chewing sounds. doi.org/10.1371/journa…
The I-told-ya's are coming.
Peace prize - India and Pakistan governments, for having their diplomats surreptitiously ring each other’s doorbells in the middle of the night, and then run away before anyone had a chance to answer the door.
I thought this was an euphemism.
It's not. m.economictimes.com/news/defence/r…
Economics prize - For trying to quantify the relationship between different countries’ national income inequality and the average amount of mouth-to-mouth kissing. nature.com/articles/s4159…
Not particularly a fan of Fig. 2, but interesting research nonetheless.
And finally, saving the best for the last... 🥁 🥁 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁...
Medical Educational prize - Jair Bolsonaro, Boris Johnson, Narendra Modi, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Alexander Lukashenko, Donald Trump, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Vladimir Putin, and Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow, for...
...using the Covid-19 viral pandemic to teach the world that politicians can have a more immediate effect on life and death than scientists and doctors can.
Take a bow Ig Nobel Committee. Take. a. bow.
@im_sergei @johnmdudley @Orad @AaronSlepkov @j_bertolotti @mickeykats @AstonPhotonics @aston_osa_spie @EidFonte @PostDigital_ETN @REALNET_EID @EtnWon
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