Just don't step on the banana - 2014 Ignoval Award for research that examined the friction of the foot with the banana peel

And also: what do the moose do when they see humans dressed as polar bears, how do you cure a nosebleed with strips of meat, and are those who work at night psychopaths

The winners of the 2014 Ignoble Awards

Last Thursday, September 18, the 24th Ignobel Prizes were awarded at a ceremony held at Harvard University. The award is given to studies that make those who read them first smile and then think.

The prize in physics was given to the Japanese Kiyoshi Mbuchi, Kansai Tanaka, Daichi Uchijima and Rina Sakai for measuring the friction between a shoe and a banana peel, and between the banana peel and the floor, when a person steps on a banana peel on the floor.
the article Frictional Coefficient under Banana Skin Published in the journal Tribology.

• The Ignoble Prize in Neuroscience was awarded to a Chinese team from the Bigchig Academy of Sciences who shared it with the University of Toronto in Canada - Jingang Liu, Jun Li, Lu Penk, Ling Li, Jia Tian and Kang Li for trying to understand what goes on in the minds of people who have seen his face of Jesus on a slice of toast.
  the article Seeing Jesus in Toast: Neural and Behavioral Correlates of Face Pareidolia,” published in the journal Cortex
• The prize in psychology - a mixed team from the USA, Great Britain and Australia - Peter Johnson, Amy Jones and Mina Younes, for the accumulated evidence that people who start their day late and are active at night, on average, have high self-esteem, are manipulative and more psychopathic than those who start their day in the morning . The study "Creatures of the Night: Chronotypes and the Dark Triad Traits,” published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences.
• The award in the field of public health was given to a team from the Czech Republic, Japan, the USA and India - Jaroslav Pelger, Jan Belczyk and Vytka Hanusova Lindova, and David Hanauer, Naren Ramakrishnan, and Lisa Seaford for their investigation into whether there is a risk of mental harm in cat owners. The study Changes in personality profile of young women with latent toxoplasmosis,” published in the journal Folia Parasitologica,
• The Ignovel Prize for Biology was awarded to a team from the Czech Republic, Germany and Zambia - to Amatvtil Natat, Petra Nowakova, Erich Pascal Malkamper, Sabin Begall, Vladimir Hansel, Milos Jacek, Tomasz Kosta, Veronika Namukova, Yana Adamkova, Katerina Benedictova, Yaroslav Chervany and Heinke Borda For a careful record of the fact that when dogs defecate they align with the Earth's magnetic field on a north-south axis. the article "Dogs are sensitive to small variations of the Earth's magnetic field,” appeared in the journal Frontiers in Zoology.
•  The Ignoble Art Prize was, naturally, given to an Italian team - Marina De Tomaso, Michaela Cerdaro and Palo Liberta for measuring the relative pain people suffer when viewing ugly images versus beautiful images, while receiving a powerful laser shot in their hand. the article "Aesthetic value of paintings affects pain thresholds Published in the journal Consciousness and Cognition
• The award in economics was given to ISTAT - the Italian National Institute of Statistics for showing leadership and fulfilling the European Union's mandate for each country to increase GDP through the integration of income from prostitution, illegal drug trade, smuggling and all other illegal transactions between people. the research,”European System of National and Regional Accounts (ESA 2010),” published in 2013 in an official publication of the European Union.
• The award in medicine was given to a team from the USA and India - Ian Humphreys, Sonal Saraya, Walter Blanki and James Dworkin for treating uncontrollable nosebleeds by sticking slices of pork into the patient's nostrils. The study - "Nasal Packing With Strips of Cured Pork as Treatment for Uncontrollable Epistaxis in a Patient with Glanzmann Thrombasthenia,” published in the journal Annals of Otology, Rhinology and Laryngology.
• The Ignoble Prize in the field of arctic sciences was awarded to a team from Norway and Germany - Egil Reimers and Cindra Aftestull, for testing how reindeer behave when they see humans disguised as polar bears. the article "Response Behaviors of Svalbard Reindeer towards Humans and Humans Disguised as Polar Bears on Edgeøya,” published in the journal Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research
• The prize in nutrition was given to Raquel Rubio, Anna Hofkev, Selen Maktin, Teresa Eimrich and Marguerite Hagariga for the research entitled "Characterization of lactic acid isolated from a bacterium found on the face of babies as a potential agent for the development of probiotic cultures for fermented sausage." The study ed "Characterization of Lactic Acid Bacteria Isolated from Infant Faeces as Potential Probiotic Starter Cultures for Fermented Sausages.” Published in the journal Food Microbiology
• On the same topic on the science site
  Ignoval 2013: Recommendation for heart transplant recipients - go to the opera
• Ignoval 2012: Green hairs and brain activity in dead fish
• Ignatius 2011: Is yawning free?K and why we sigh
• Ignoble 2010: Slime and trains
• All articles on the subject

To the list of winners on the 'Award' website.

Unfortunately I did not find the original version of the trackers, but this gesture is not bad either - the main thing is not to click on the banana
Em