Among the other winners, the AIG company, which invented a new way to lose all the investors' money, British Petroleum, which proved that oil and water do not mix, and researchers who came to the conclusion that the most reliable way to walk outside in the winter is to wear socks on the outside of the shoe so as not to slip
On Thursday, Harvard University hosted the 20th Ignoval Awards ceremony. This is a sign that starting Monday we have to prepare for the announcements of the Nobel Prize winners for 2010
Among other things, this year's ceremony featured an innovation - a team that won in 2008 received the award for the second time in 2010. For the first time, the team members used slime worms to upgrade the subway in Tokyo by tracking the movement of the slime block in the most efficient way for the worm to move towards the food. The ceremony was attended by an eight-year-old girl who commented to the winners who had difficulty shortening their speeches, "I'm bored", threw paper airplanes and more, and announced a date competition with a Nobel laureate.
Winners of the Ignoble Engineering Prize: Karina Acevedo-Whitehouse and Agnes Roche-Gosselin of the Zoological Society of London in the UK and Diane Gangron of the National Polytechnic Institute in Baja California, Mexico for improving a method to collect whale snot using a remote-controlled helicopter.
The 2010 Ignoval Prize for Medicine was awarded to Simon Rietveld from the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands and Ilia van Beest from the University of Tilburg, also in the Netherlands, for discovering that asthma symptoms can be treated by riding a roller coaster.
The Transportation Design Award went to Toshiyoko Nakagaki, Achuchi Toro, Seiji Takagi, Tetsu Saigusa, Kenoru Ito, Kenji Yumiki, Ryo Kobayashi from Japan, as well as Dunn Beaver and Mark Fricker from Great Britain for using slime to demonstrate optimal routes for subway trains. Three of the winners, Nakagaki, Kobayashi and Teru won the prize in 2008 when they proved that slime can also help solve puzzles.
Ignoble Physics Prize: Leanne Barkin, Sheila Williams and Patricia Priest of the University of Otago, New Zealand for demonstrating that on an ice surface in winter, people will slip less and fall less often if they wear socks on the outside of their shoes. The article was published in the New Zealand Medical Journal.
Ignoble Peace Prize: Richard Stevens, John Atkins and Andrew Kingston of Keele University in the UK, for confirming common beliefs that swearing is a pain reliever. The article was published in the journal Neuro-Report.
Ignoval Prize for Public Health: Manuel Barbato, Charles Mathews and Larry Taylor of the Office of Occupational Health and Safety, Fort Dartick, Maryland, USA for experimentally establishing that bacteria adhere to bearded scientists. Published in the journal Applied Microbiology.
The economics award is given to executives and managers at Goldman Sachs, AIG, Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch and Magnetar for creating and promoting new ways of investing money - ways that maximize profit and minimize financial risk for the global economy, or at least partially.
Ignoble Prize in Chemistry: Eric Adams of MIT, Scott Sokolofsky of Texas A&M University, as well as Stephen Masutani of the University of Hawaii, and British Petroleum (BP) for disconfirming the ancient belief thatWater and oil do not mix.
The prize in management was awarded to Alessandro Flochino, Andrea Rapisarde and Cesare Garofalo of the University of Catania, Italy for mathematically demonstrating that organizations would become more efficient if they promoted people randomly.
The biology prize went to Libiao Zhang, Min Tan, Guanjian Zu, Jianping Ye, Tiu Hong, Shanyi Zhu and Shui Zhang from China, as well as Garrett Jones from the University of Bristol in the UK for scientific documentation of oral sex in bats fruits.
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To the moderator of the universe - perhaps it is worth mentioning that the initiators of the ceremony define the award as an award for studies that make people laugh... and then think.
Most of the awards are actually given out of appreciation for these researchers who, in their opinion, redefined what science is.
I have objections regarding the awarding of the award in management:
"The prize in management was awarded to Alessandro Flochino, Andrea Rapisarde and Cesare Garofalo of the University of Catania, Italy for mathematically modeling that organizations would become more efficient if they promoted people randomly"
I think they are on to something really big and they shouldn't be cut off too soon…..
I know organizations that turned to dust when they promoted people in a very calculated way with the utmost consideration for that person's sister from the funds.
The Nobel Peace Prize was given for a study that proved that swearing forgets the pain, and not as written here. By the way, the girl did not throw paper airplanes, but the whole crowd. I was there, it was cool.
As Yossi wrote, the prize for transportation was given to researchers who used mucus - which are neither mushrooms nor worms but simply mucus
The translation is so bad, too bad.
The transport award was given to researchers for using mucilage, a type of fungus, not "slime".
Larya (response 2), oral not oral.
It's a shame, Obama could have won Ignobel very justly thanks to the Nobel Peace Prize he received for nothing, alternatively, the Nobel Prize Committee could have won Ignobel for the same case…………
It's worth proofreading the article (for example, on the word "stipulations"), and here and there improve the translation.
Why did the author change "oral sex in fruit bats" to "primate sexual behavior in bats" in the title. Why don't dogs lick bitches? And this is just an example... and what is there - at the end of the text you can write oral sex but not in the title?
Cool
Lucky/unfortunate that the Israelis don't star