Ignoble 2015: How to make a chicken walk like a dinosaur and how long it takes mammals to empty their bladder

The 2015 Ignoble Award ceremony - this year was held for the 25th time at Harvard University on September 17.

A few weeks ago (September 17) the 25th ceremony for the distribution of the Ignoble Awards was held at Harvard University. The prize, as a paraphrase of the Nobel prizes, which overlap in some fields, is given for "results that cannot be repeated or that it is desirable not to repeat". All the studies appeared in scientific journals, some of the most respected.

The Ignoval Chemistry Prize is awarded to the researchers who developed a chemical recipe for partially returning an egg to its pre-cooked state

REFERENCE: “Shear-Stress-Mediated Refolding of Proteins from Aggregates and Inclusion Bodies,” Tom Z. Yuan, Callum FG Ormonde, Stephan T. Kudlacek, Sameeran Kunche, Joshua N. Smith, William A. Brown, Kaitlin M. Pugliese, Tivoli J. Olsen, Mariam Iftikhar, Colin L. Raston, Gregory A. Weiss, ChemBioChem, epub January 2015.

The prize in physics is awarded to researchers who examined the biological principle according to which almost all mammals empty their bladders within 21 seconds (plus or minus 13 seconds).

REFERENCE:Duration of Urination Does Not Change With Body Size,” Patricia J. Yang, Jonathan Pham, Jerome Choo, and David L. Hu, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2014: 201402289.

The prize in literature was given to three Dutch people for discovering the fact that the word huh? (huh?) or its equivalents seem to exist in almost every human language - and they don't know exactly why.

REFERENCE:Is 'Huh?' a universal word? Conversational infrastructure and the convergent evolution of linguistic items,” Mark Dingemanse, Francisco Torreira, and Nick J. Enfield, PLOS ONE, 2013. [a video lessonaccompanies the paper.]

The Award in Management - Ginaro Bernilla and Rajahankara Rao for discovering the fact that many business managers grew up in an environment that loved risk-taking, and who experienced a natural disaster (earthquake, volcanic eruption, tsunami and wildfires) were not personally affected by them.

REFERENCE: “What Doesn't Kill You Will Only Make You More Risk-Loving: Early-Life Disasters and CEO Behavior,” Gennaro Bernile, Vineet Bhagwat, and P. Raghavendra Rau,

Accepted for publication in the Journal of Finance, 2015.

The prize in the economy - the Bangkok police who offered to pay a salary increase to police officers who refuse to accept bribes. According to publication in many media.

The prize in medicine is awarded to two groups - one led by Heima Kimata of the Penny and the other by the Czech Yaroslava Dordiakova for experiments to examine the benefits or negative consequences of a strong kiss (and other intense interpersonal activities).

REFERENCE:Kissing Reduces Allergic Skin Wheal Responses and Plasma Neurotrophin Levels,” Hajime Kimata, Physiology and Behavior, vol. 80, nos. 2-3, November 2003, pp. 395-8.

REFERENCE:Reduction of Allergic Skin Weal Responses by Sexual Intercourse in Allergic Patients,” Hajime Kimata, Sexual and Relationship Therapy, vol 19, no. 2, May 2004, pp. 151-4.

REFERENCE:Kissing Selectively Decreases Allergen-Specific IgE Production in Atopic Patients,” Hajime Kimata, Journal of Psychosomatic Research, vol. 60, 2006, pp. 545–547.

REFERENCE:Prevalence and Persistence of Male DNA Identified in Mixed Saliva Samples After Intense Kissing,” Natália Kamodyová, Jaroslava Durdiaková, Peter Celec, Tatiana Sedláčková, Gabriela Repiská, Barbara Sviežená, and Gabriel Minárik, Forensic Science International Genetics, vol. 7, no. 1, January 2013, pp. 124–8.

The prize in mathematics was given to two researchers for an attempt to use mathematical techniques to determine whether and how the bloodthirsty Moulay Ismail, ruler of the Moroccan Sahara during the years 1697-1727, got along with his 888 children.

REFERENCE:The Case of Moulay Ismael-Fact or Fancy?” Elisabeth Oberzaucher and Karl Grammer, PLOS ONE, vol. 9, no. 2, 2014, e85292.

The prize in biology - Bruno Grossi, Omar Lerach and their partners, mostly from Chile, for the observation that when you stick a stick in the buttock of a chicken (artificial tail) it walks in a way similar to the way the dinosaurs are thought to have walked.

REFERENCE:Walking Like Dinosaurs: Chickens with Artificial Tails Provide Clues about Non-Avian Theropod Locomotion,” Bruno Grossi, José Iriarte-Díaz, Omar Larach, Mauricio Canals, Rodrigo A. Vásquez, PLoS ONE, vol. 9, no. 2, 2014, e88458. [NOTE: The paper is accompanied by a video lesson.>

The award in medical diagnostics - Dila Karaim, Anthony Hernden and their partners, for their determination that the severity of inflammation in the appendix can be accurately identified based on the amount of pain the patient suffers when the ambulance goes over the deceleration lanes.

REFERENCE:Pain Over Speed ​​Bumps in Diagnosis of Acute Appendicitis: Diagnostic Accuracy Study,” Helen F. Ashdown, Nigel D'Souza, Diallah Karim, Richard J. Stevens, Andrew Huang, and Anthony Harnden, BMJ, vol. 345, 2012, e8012.

The Physiology and Entomology Prize is jointly awarded to two individuals: Justin Schmidt for the careful development of the Schmidt sting pain meter, which measures the relative pain people feel when stung by a variety of objects, and Michelle Smith for deliberately arranging honey bees to sting him repeatedly in - 25 places on his body, to learn in which part of the body the sting hurts the least (the skull, the tip of the toe and the upper arm) and where it hurts the most: the nostril, upper lip, and the tip of the male genital organ)

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REFERENCE:Hemolytic Activities of Stinging Insect Venoms,” Justin O. Schmidt, Murray S. Blum, and William L. Overall, Archives of Insect Biochemistry and Physiology, vol. 1, no. 2, 1983, pp. 155-160.

REFERENCE:Honey Bee Sting Pain Index by Body Location,” Michael L. Smith, PeerJ, 2014, 2:e338.

Source - Ig Nobel website

More of the topic in Hayadan:

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

Ignoval 2013 - The friction caused by sliding on a banana, why we cry from onions

Ignoval 2012 – green hairs; Brain activity in dead salmon