Polish is a difficult language, and a bra that turns into gas masks - Ignoble Awards 2009

As usual on the eve of the announcement of this year's Nobel Prize winners, the Ignobel winners are chosen for particularly strange research

Harvard University provided the appetizer this year as well for the announcement starting today of the winners of the Nobel Prizes. In a ceremony held last Thursday, the Ig-Nobel Prizes were awarded for the 19th time for achievements that make a person laugh, and then also think.

The winners of the Ignoval Veterinary Award are Catherine Douglas and Peter Rawlinson from the University of Newcastle in the UK, who showed that cows that won the award gave more milk than cows that were satisfied with an individual number. Rawlinson represented the two when Douglas was in labor. She contented herself with broadcasting a picture of herself and her newborn daughter dressed in a cow suit, with the two standing next to each other, right. cow.
Ignoble Peace Prize: Steven Bolliger, Steven Ross, Lars Osterlög, Michael Thali and Beat Kiebohl of the University of Bern Schwaitz for examining in an experiment whether it hurts more if you hit a person with a full or empty beer bottle.
The directors, executives and accountants of three banks in Iceland - Kopoting Bank, Landsbanki Bank and Glitnir Bank, in collaboration with the Central Bank of Iceland, were awarded the Ignoble Prize for Economics when they demonstrated how small banks can grow quickly and collapse at once, and to show the fact that a similar thing can also happen to an entire national economy.

The prize in chemistry - Javier Morales, Miguel Aptiga and Victor Castaño from the National Autonomous University of Mexico for creating liquid diamonds - especially from tequila.

The prize in medicine was won by Donland Unger of Thousand Oaks, California for the research he is doing on the relationship between the tendency to get arthritis and the practice of insoles. For sixty years he opened the fingers of his left hand and never of his right - every day.

The prize in physics was given to Kathleen Whitcomb from the University of Cincinnati, Daniel Lieberman from Harvard and Lisa Shapiro from the University of Texas who explained why a pregnant woman should not roll over.
The award for literature was given to the Irish police for writing and presenting over fifty traffic reports to the holder of the record of offenses - Prawo Jazdy, which means in Polish - driver's license.

The public health award went to Yelena Bodner, Raphael Lee and Sandra Barian from Chicago who invented bras, which in an emergency can be converted into protective face masks, where each bra turns into two masks, in case a mask is also needed for the partner.

The mathematics prize was awarded to Gideon Gono, the Governor of the Central Bank of Zimbabwe who gave people an everyday example of how to deal with a wide range of numbers from the smallest to the largest, by offering banknotes ranging from one Zimbabwean cent to one hundred trillion dollars 100,000,000,000,000. By the way, in the meantime, Zimbabwe had to cancel its currency and allow citizens to make transactions in euros, dollars and pounds.

The Ignoble Prize in Biology was won by three Japanese - Fumiaki Taguchi, Song Gupo, and Zankage Gonglei from Kitasto University in Japan, who demonstrated that food purification systems can reduce the mass of garbage by 90% by using a bacterium derived from panda feces.

For information on the award website