In New York, bizarre and often seen as irrelevant research is honored. These included boredom, nose hair and e-chopsticks.
For the 33rd time, the “Ig Nobel Prizes” (“ignoble” means “dishonorable”) honor scientific studies that “first make you laugh and then make you think,” according to the organizer. The unendowed fun prizes are also intended to ‘celebrate the unusual and honor the imaginative’.
Hair in nostrils
Experts from the US, Canada, Iran and Vietnam received awards for whether someone has the same amount of hair in both nostrils. They examined about 20 corpses and found about 110 to 120 hairs per nostril, the experts said in the online acceptance speech. Researchers from Argentina, Spain, Colombia, Chile, China and the US received one of ten prizes for research into the brain activity of people who are experts at speaking backwards.
Study on boredom
An international team of researchers from seven countries received an award in the ‘Education’ category for their research into boredom. Students are often bored, even if the teacher is too. Anders Seung Min Park: The researcher invented the “Stanford toilet”.
The toilet analyzes excreted substances. He was honored, as were Japanese researchers for their experiments on whether electric chopsticks and straws change the taste of food.
Source: Krone
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