I always look forward to reading these. In a world where everyone is so serious, some people can take a step back and look at the lighter side of serious life.
For this new to this, from the Improbable Research website:
Economics prize “ for trying to quantify the relationship between different countries’ national income inequality and the average amount of mouth-to-mouth kissing”
Entomology prize “for collecting evidence that many entomologists (scientists who study insects) are afraid of spiders, which are not insects.”
Materials Science prize “ for showing that knives manufactured from frozen human feces do not work well.”
Psychology prize “ for devising a method to identify narcissists by examining their eyebrows.”
Peace prize “ The governments of India and Pakistan, for having their diplomats surreptitiously ring each other’s doorbells in the middle of the night, and then run away before anyone had a chance to answer the door.”
See the web site for additional 2020 winners along with prior year history.
For this new to this, from the Improbable Research website:
This year's IG Nobel prizes include these gems https://www.improbable.com/ig-about/winners/
Economics prize “ for trying to quantify the relationship between different countries’ national income inequality and the average amount of mouth-to-mouth kissing”
Entomology prize “for collecting evidence that many entomologists (scientists who study insects) are afraid of spiders, which are not insects.”
Materials Science prize “ for showing that knives manufactured from frozen human feces do not work well.”
Psychology prize “ for devising a method to identify narcissists by examining their eyebrows.”
Peace prize “ The governments of India and Pakistan, for having their diplomats surreptitiously ring each other’s doorbells in the middle of the night, and then run away before anyone had a chance to answer the door.”
See the web site for additional 2020 winners along with prior year history.
