At Harvard University were awarded the 20th annual Ig Nobel Prize premii.Nazvanie is a play on words: in English it sounds like Ig Nobel Prize (in tune with the English. Ignoble - «shameful") and is a parody of the English sounding name NobelPrize - Nobel Prize.According to one version, the title also includes an allusion to the name of the Ig Nobel, the inventor of wearing that soda pop.Ig Nobel Prize was established in 1991 by the American magazine "Annals of Improbable Research."
Ig Nobel prize 2010 in physics received the "discovery" of the New Zealand University of Otago.Its representatives have proven that if you do not wear socks on the bare foot, and on top of the shoe, it prevents from falling on the ice.
Ig Nobel Prize - in medicine - went to the Dutch - they offered to treat asthma rollercoaster ride.No less "useful" it was the discovery of a group of British scientists from Keele University, to prove that the oaths and curses reduce sensitivity to pain.
Antinobel Prize in health care this year went to the Americans - the jury awarded its department of health and safety in the industry in Fort Detrick in Maryland, to prove that microbes "stick" to the scientists, microbiologists beards as a result of work in the laboratory.
In the category "Economy" won the top managers of financial and insurance giants - Goldman Sachs, AIG, Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, Merril Lynch and Magnetar - "for the invention and dissemination of the unique ways to maximize profits and minimize financial risks" that contribute to prosperitythe world economy.Strictly speaking, these people are responsible for the global crisis.
In the field of engineering is British defeated Karina Atsevedo-Whitehouse of the Zoological Society of London, and Diane Gendron of the Mexican National Polytechnic Institute of improving methods of collecting whale snot using a remote-controlled helicopter.
in the design of transportation facilities to use the best offer slime organisms known to biologists as the slime mold to determine the optimal route of the railway tracks.A team of scientists has seven Japanese and two British.In this case, it consists of three Japanese, who in 2008 had won the Ig Nobel Prize for proving that such microbes help to solve the puzzle.
Prize in chemistry awarded for proof that, contrary to current opinion earlier, oil and water still mixed.Its got Eric Adams of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Scott Sokolofski the University of Texas A & amp; M, Stephen Masutani of the University of Hawaii and, of course, British Petroleum for his work on the study of deep-sea oil leak.
important discovery in the field of management: companies become more efficient if they get employees to increase service randomly.Authors - Three Italian scientists, who were able to prove their discovery mathematically.
seven Chinese and one Englishman made a breakthrough discovery in the field of biology: it turns out, fruit bats (mammals of the order suborder of bats sometimes called flying fox) deal a blow job, which increases the duration of sexual intercourse.
Ig Nobel prize awarded in the Hall Theatre Sanders (capacity - 1166 seats) at Harvard University, which gave the world the highest number of Nobel Prize winners.Winners receive the award from the hands of these Nobel laureates, dressed for the occasion in ridiculous costumes and equipped with fake glasses and a patch noses.
There is a tradition, according to which the audience during the awarding launch paper airplanes onto the stage, which is after the event gathers Harvard professor Roy Glauber (Nobel Prize in Physics), an official appointed "keeper of the broom" Ig Nobel Committee.In 2006, the launch of airplanes was banned for "security reasons."
The speech winners of Ig Nobel Prize should not last more than 60 seconds.Violated the limit stops "Miss Sweetie Poo» (Miss Sweetie Poo) - a little girl coming out on stage and petulantly exclaimed, "Please stop, I'm bored!»
form Ig Nobel awards are different: they can be in the form of medals of foilklatsat jaw or on a stand.Certificate confirming its receipt, signed by the three real Nobel laureates.
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