Marc Abrahams: Improbable Research and the Ig® Nobel Prizes #crossref
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- 20. The Opera
- 22. Two notable past Ig Nobel winners
- 28. The 2015 Ig Nobel Prize winners
- 30. Chemistry Prize Callum Ormonde, Colin Raston, Tom Yuan, Stephan Kudlacek, Sameeran Kunche, Joshua N. Smith, William A. Brown, Kaitlin Pugliese, Tivoli Olsen, Mariam Iftikhar, and Gregory Weiss [AUSTRALIA, USA], for
- 31. Chemistry Prize inventing a chemical recipe •
- 32. Chemistry Prize to partially un-boil inventing a chemical recipe •
- 33. Chemistry Prize to partially un-boil inventing a chemical recipe an egg. •
- 39. Patricia J. Yang, David Hu, Jonathan Pham, and Jerome Choo [USA, TAIWAN], for… Physics Prize
- 40. Physics Prize testing the biological principle that nearly all mammals •
- 41. Physics Prize testing the biological principle that nearly all mammals empty their bladders •
- 42. Physics Prize testing the biological principle that nearly all mammals empty their bladders • in about 21 seconds
- 43. Physics Prize testing the biological principle that nearly all mammals empty their bladders (plus or minus 13 seconds). • in about 21 seconds
- 51. Literature Prize Mark Dingemanse, Francisco Torreira, and Nick J. Enfield [AUSTRALIA, BELGIUM, THE NETHERLANDS, USA], for…
- 52. Literature Prize —discovering that the word “huh?” (or its equivalent) •
- 53. Literature Prize —discovering that the word “huh?” (or its equivalent) seems to exist in every human language •
- 54. Literature Prize —discovering that the word “huh?” (or its equivalent) seems to exist in every human language — and for not being quite sure why. •
- 59. Management Prize Gennaro Bernile, Vineet Bhagwat, and P. Raghavendra Rau [ITALY, SINGAPORE, USA, UK, INDIA, FRANCE, LUXEMBOURG, GERMANY, JAPAN] for…
- 60. Management Prize discovering that many business leaders •
- 61. Management Prize discovering that many business leaders developed, in childhood, a fondness for risk-taking, •
- 62. Management Prize discovering that many business leaders developed, in childhood, a fondness for risk-taking, when they experienced natural disasters •
- 63. Management Prize discovering that many business leaders developed, in childhood, a fondness for risk-taking, when they experienced natural disasters (such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, and wildfires) •
- 64. Management Prize discovering that many business leaders developed, in childhood, a fondness for risk-taking, when they experienced natural disasters (such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, and wildfires) that — for them — had no dire personal consequences. •
- 69. Economics Prize The Bangkok Metropolitan Police [THAILAND], for...
- 70. Economics Prize offering to pay policemen •
- 71. Economics Prize offering to pay policemen extra cash •
- 72. Economics Prize offering to pay policemen extra cash if the policemen refuse •
- 73. Economics Prize offering to pay policemen extra cash if the policemen refuse to take bribes. •
- 75. Jack Dietz Sep 7, 2015, 5:04
- 79. Medicine Prize Awarded jointly to Hajime Kimata [JAPAN]
- 80. Medicine Prize and to Jaroslava Durdiaková, Peter Celec, Natália Kamodyová, Tatiana Sedláčková, Gabriela Repiská, Barbara Sviežená, and Gabriel Minárik [SLOVAKIA, USA, UK, GERMANY] for...
- 81. Medicine Prize experiments to study •
- 82. Medicine Prize experiments to study the biomedical benefits or biomedical consequences •
- 83. Medicine Prize experiments to study the biomedical benefits or biomedical consequences of intense kissing •
- 84. Medicine Prize experiments to study the biomedical benefits or biomedical consequences of intense kissing (and other intimate interpersonal activities). •
- 96. Mathematics Prize Elizabeth Oberzaucher and Karl Grammer [AUSTRIA, GERMANY, UK], for…
- 97. Mathematics Prize •trying to use mathematical techniques
- 98. Mathematics Prize to determine whether and how •trying to use mathematical techniques
- 99. Mathematics Prize to determine whether and how Moulay Ismael the Bloodthirsty, •trying to use mathematical techniques
- 100. Mathematics Prize to determine whether and how Moulay Ismael the Bloodthirsty, •trying to use mathematical techniques the Sharifian Emperor of Morocco, managed,
- 101. Mathematics Prize to determine whether and how Moulay Ismael the Bloodthirsty, •trying to use mathematical techniques the Sharifian Emperor of Morocco, managed, during the years from 1697 through 1727,
- 102. Mathematics Prize to determine whether and how Moulay Ismael the Bloodthirsty, •trying to use mathematical techniques the Sharifian Emperor of Morocco, managed, during the years from 1697 through 1727, to father 888 children.
- 109. Biology Prize Bruno Grossi, Omar Larach, Mauricio Canals, Rodrigo A. Vásquez, and José Irarte-Díaz [CHILE, USA], for…
- 110. Biology Prize observing that when you attach a weighted stick •
- 111. Biology Prize to the rear end of a chicken, observing that when you attach a weighted stick •
- 112. Biology Prize to the rear end of a chicken, the chicken then walks observing that when you attach a weighted stick in a manner similar to that in which •
- 113. Biology Prize to the rear end of a chicken, the chicken then walks observing that when you attach a weighted stick in a manner similar to that in which dinosaurs are thought to have walked. •
- 121. Diagnostic Medicine Prize Diallah Karim, Anthony Harnden, Nigel D’Souza, Andrew Huang, Abdel Kader Allouni, Helen Ashdown, Richard J. Stevens, and Simon Kreckler [CANADA, UK, NEW ZEALAND, USA, BAHRAIN, BELGIUM, DUBAI, INDIA, SOUTH AFRICA, CHINA, SYRIA], for…
- 122. Diagnostic Medicine Prize determining that acute appendicitis •
- 123. Diagnostic Medicine Prize determining that acute appendicitis can be accurately diagnosed •
- 124. Diagnostic Medicine Prize determining that acute appendicitis can be accurately diagnosed by the amount of pain evident •
- 125. Diagnostic Medicine Prize determining that acute appendicitis can be accurately diagnosed by the amount of pain evident when the patient is •
- 126. Diagnostic Medicine Prize determining that acute appendicitis can be accurately diagnosed by the amount of pain evident when the patient is • driven over speed bumps.
- 131. Ig® Nobel Physiology and Entomology Prize
- 132. Physiology and Entomology Prize Awarded jointly to Justin Schmidt [USA, Canada], for
- 134. painstakingly creating the Schmidt Sting Pain Index, Physiology and Entomology Prize
- 135. painstakingly creating the Schmidt Sting Pain Index, which rates the relative pain people feel Physiology and Entomology Prize
- 136. painstakingly creating the Schmidt Sting Pain Index, which rates the relative pain people feel when stung by various insects, and… Physiology and Entomology Prize
- 137. and to Michael L. Smith [USA, UK, THE NETHERLANDS], for Physiology and Entomology Prize
- 138. carefully arranging for honey bees to sting him repeatedly on 25 different locations on his body,•
- 139. carefully arranging for honey bees to sting him repeatedly on 25 different locations on his body, to learn which locations are the least painful •
- 140. carefully arranging for honey bees to sting him repeatedly on 25 different locations on his body, to learn which locations are the least painful (skull, middle toe tip, and upper arm), •
- 141. carefully arranging for honey bees to sting him repeatedly on 25 different locations on his body, to learn which locations are the least painful (skull, middle toe tip, and upper arm), and to learn which locations are the most painful •
- 142. carefully arranging for honey bees to sting him repeatedly on 25 different locations on his body, to learn which locations are the least painful (skull, middle toe tip, and upper arm), and to learn which locations are the most painful (nostril, upper lip, and penis shaft). •
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