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IT’S NOBEL PRIZE WEEK – with the world’s scientific communities coming together to honour those who have made landmark contributions to their respective noble fields.
Alongside those prizes, however, come a much more fun category – the Ig Nobel Prizes – which honour those who contribute to the sciences in ways that make us laugh, as well as ways that make us think.
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Here’s a selection of the ten winners from this year’s prizes – and the reasons for their widely-hailed success. Among them: the perfect consistency of wasabi in order to use it as an ‘alarm’, and how needing to pee changes the way you think.
Wasabi, yawning, and needing to pee: the winners of the 2011 Ig Nobel prizes
Wednesday 27 November, 2024
Wednesday 27 November, 2024
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Wasabi, yawning, and needing to pee: the winners of the 2011 Ig Nobel prizes
IT’S NOBEL PRIZE WEEK – with the world’s scientific communities coming together to honour those who have made landmark contributions to their respective noble fields.
Alongside those prizes, however, come a much more fun category – the Ig Nobel Prizes – which honour those who contribute to the sciences in ways that make us laugh, as well as ways that make us think.
Here’s a selection of the ten winners from this year’s prizes – and the reasons for their widely-hailed success. Among them: the perfect consistency of wasabi in order to use it as an ‘alarm’, and how needing to pee changes the way you think.
Medicine Prize
Biology Prize
Physiology Prize
Public Safety Prize
Chemistry Prize
Psychology Prize
Literature Prize
Mathematics Prize
Physics Prize
Peace Prize
More details on the Ig Nobel winners, and links to their published research, can be found at the Ig Nobel website.
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