It's Friday, anyway. And then it's awards season IgNobel. And prices IgNobel are partly responsible for starting this blog . In addition, this year the Swiss has not awarded the IgNobel Peace which we seem to be these days subscribers. Deuce and the reasons that I could still bring the IgNobel all worthwhile to be followed. Here is an excerpt from the anthology this year: Physics: three New Zealand researchers, who have (finally) showed that it could reduce the risk of falling on icy roads by putting on socks shoes. Not only the ridiculous does not kill, but most times it saves your life.
Peace: Three British scientists, which confirmed very seriously our intuition that him cursing relieves pain. If we apply it seriously, emergency services will never be quite the same.
Public Health: Three American researchers, affiliated with the very serious Industrial Health and Safety Office at Fort Detrick for demonstrating experimentally that microbes cling bearded scientists.
Medicine: two Dutch researchers, who found they could treat asthma by a roller coaster ride. The story does not say if it's proportional to the funk that you plug it, because after all the adrenaline and cortisol (stress hormones some) is actually good for asthma. But this is probably the subject of future studies.
Engineering : to two researchers from the Zoological Society of London, to have developed a technique for monitoring the whales by sending a remote controlled helicopter ... uh ... take their nasal secretions. You know, when flying low blow and that if we can practically ...?
Economy: too easy this year he was awarded the officials of Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch and Magnetar for having "created and promoted new ways of investing money - ways that maximize gains and minimize risks to the global economy, or part of this economy. "must be read to the end, there.
chemistry: a mixed team of MIT, University of Texas, and Hawaii, and British Petroleum, for demonstrating that it was wrong as oil and water do not mix .
Management : perhaps the most worrisome, because the winners are an Italian team that has demonstrated mathematically that, if certain initial conditions are given, the organizations become more efficient in deciding promotions to chance rather than skill . Well, mind you, it's disturbing depends for whom.
And last but not least, Biology: a Sino-British team, scientifically documented to have oral sex with bats. scientifically interesting because they join a club and relatively closed species. But in addition they show a talent freestyle difficult to duplicate in ours ...
As usual, the winners are invited to say a few words and the idea is to demonstrate on this occasion their sense of humor and self-mockery. The video for this year is not available yet but it will soon here and usually they are worth the detour. However, I can not tell you if the end will be classified X. ..
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